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Retire Windows 7 support #516

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walbourn opened this issue Dec 6, 2024 · 3 comments · Fixed by #517
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Retire Windows 7 support #516

walbourn opened this issue Dec 6, 2024 · 3 comments · Fixed by #517

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walbourn commented Dec 6, 2024

Windows 7 reached end of life as of Jan 2020. I've left support for some time building using _WIN32_WINNT=0x0601;_WIN7_PLATFORM_UPDATE. I could change it to _WIN32_WINNT=0x0603 to require Windows 8.1 or later.

Windows 8.1 end of life was Jan 2023, but I'm going to start with removing Windows 7 before getting that aggressive.

When both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 are removed, I can deprecate the directxtk12_desktop_2019 NuGet package in favor of directxtk12_desktop_win10

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Note that Steam dropped support for Windows 7, Windows 8.0, and Windows 8.1 back in January 2024.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4784-4F2B-1321-800A

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HSNB commented Jan 2, 2025

What did the _WIN7_PLATFORM_UPDATE preprocessor directive do? I can't seem to find anything about it being used

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walbourn commented Jan 8, 2025

It was to enable WIC2 usage when building for 0x0601 (Windows 7) which required KB 2670838.

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