Compiling grfcodec/nforenum For Windows

[wallyweb]

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O/S: Windows 10
Msys2 (MinGW32 and MinGW64)
Visual Studio 2019

The download page for grfcodec offers:

grfcodec-6.0.6-windows (Windows XP with SP3 / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 (32bit) (zip archive))
and
grfcodec-6.0.6-sources (Sources (zip archive))

The binary does work on WindowsXP
but
A compilation from source does not. [System error : The procedure entry point GetTickCount64 could not be located in DLL Kernel32.dll.]
Apparently Kernel32.dll does not exist in XP.

Question: How was the binary compiled such that it does support XP?

[planetmaker]

Did you try an older SDK / Visual Studio version? I can well imagine that MS removed support for building XP-backward compatible binaries as support for that expired. I am pretty sure that OpenTTD does not use the 2019 SDK to build its binaries.

[wallyweb]

Did you try an older SDK / Visual Studio version? I can well imagine that MS removed support for building XP-backward compatible binaries as support for that expired. I am pretty sure that OpenTTD does not use the 2019 SDK to build its binaries.

Thanks for the fast reply.
I am able to compile OpenTTD on VS2019 by selecting project solution openttd_vs142.sln.
Unfortunately the grfcodec source does not have a project folder.

There is a Windows7 SDK that does support XP, but will it live alongside my VS2019?

[milek7]

Last toolset supporting XP is v141_xp
It is not installed by default in VS2019, but you can select it in installer.

[wallyweb]

Last toolset supporting XP is v141_xp
It is not installed by default in VS2019, but you can select it in installer.

Thanks for that. I now have it installed.