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ANSI Build/Windows ME compatibility

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madman420:
TDragon, That Win9x ANSI build works great (on winME), Thanks a lot!

I tired compiling the source myself, according to:  http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Installing_Code::Blocks_from_source_on_Windows

...but, it wasn't until after I successfully compiled wx w/ ansi, that I realized I needed Code::Blocks to build itself!!

The differences between Windows 9x and XP / 2000 (in situations like this) is really minimal.  I wish others would quit helping Microsoft to obsolete their products (and therefore their customer's machines); Windows 9x compatibility can be had with only a few extra lines of code and avoidance of API calls that only work with specific (newer) versions of Windows.

MortenMacFly:

--- Quote from: madman420 on August 27, 2009, 10:54:33 am ---Windows 9x compatibility can be had with only a few extra lines of code and avoidance of API calls that only work with specific (newer) versions of Windows.

--- End quote ---
That is correct. But also the devs need Win9x/ME for development/testing which is not the case (at least to my knowledge). However - patches are welcome.

Conan Kudo:
I might make some builds for it, because I have been meaning to post my old installer as part of a portfolio of installers for potential contractors to see that I am competent at making installers. I have REALLY old builds of C::B that are Unicode/ANSI (build 2417 is the latest I have), so it might be a good idea for me to go ahead and set up a build environment to make a recent build (likely just the 8.02 release version).

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