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Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

127 points by kristianp

by sanxiyn

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An interesting bit of history: for a long time Rust maintained first party support for Windows XP, after other parts of ecosystem generally gave up. This was because Firefox needed it.
https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/378 (major change proposal to drop Windows XP support) notes this history and links to other relevant pages.

by vbezhenar

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I wish more languages support old platforms. I'm working in a company and a lot of our customers are running Windows 7 and 8, few of them running Vista. I have to use ancient versions of development tools to target those. For example stuck on Java 8 for eternity. It's PITA.

by seritools

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Author here -- previous discussions/blog posts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23313577
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112273
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37787161
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38810782

by ptspts

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Shameless plug: Some of my hobby projects written in C (e.g. https://github.com/pts/bakefat) can be built reproducibly for Linux >=1.0 (1994), FreeBSD (same ELF executable program file as for Linux) and Win32 working on all versions of Windows (Windows NT 3.1 (1993)--Windows 11). The C compiler (running on Linux i386 and amd64 host) used for the release build is self-contained and included in the project, along with the libc.
Doing such backward compatibility is definitiely possible for command-line tools. Once set up, it's automatic, and it needs extra testing after major changes.

by arka2147483647

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For someone who is not a rust programmer, but would like to keep up to date, can somebody tell me what "Tier 4" is. And why must it be quoted?

by zozbot234

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This target might become more viable in the future as Stable Rust adds options to rebuild libstd with custom features as part of building a project.

by self_awareness

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And unofficial "Tier 5" Rust Target is... for Commodore-64:
https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos
It works, and builds binaries that are ready to be executed by Vice emulator.

by binaryturtle

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And here I'm still trying to get an up-to.date Rust running on my outdated OS X (10.10). No luck (though I may not try hard enough).

by fithisux

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by pwdisswordfishy

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by anthk

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by umanwizard

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The idea of running Rust code on Windows 95 is very funny to me. Two completely different universes colliding.

by NooneAtAll3

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considering the all-insistence of rust on using internet for all the libraries, this doesn't seem like a good idea...