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Couldn't this resolve that problem?: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679

I don't have the Windows XP machine, it was someone else that tested it. I did notify them to get the VS2012 runtime beforehand. If they listened, I don't know. When I don't have it installed on Vista/7, it gives a different error though.

It is still possible to run dolphin on WinXP, but you need to make changes to the configuration.
See this page for details:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/jj851139.aspx

Essentially, someone wanting to build for WinXP needs to change PlatformToolset to v120_xp (Note: the link currently describes vs2012 version incorrectly). After that, it should work, but I have not tested this at all.

WinXP in general should move to our current WinXP x64 compatibility status: "it probably works if you do some small twiddling with the build, but we don't support it and won't add support/promise it works in the future".

I updated the Windows_Build wiki yesterday and it already says Windows Vista or higher is needed. I don't know what else needs to be changed.

maartenpeters@hotmail.nl: No, that is totally unrelated.
JMC4789: Dolphin uses VS2013, not VS2012. The runtime is now included with dolphin, so people don't need to install anything extra, in any case.

"The June 2010 DirectX SDK is required if you are building on or for a version of Windows prior to Windows 8."

Technically we don't support Vista or Win 7 atm then...

Okay, thanks. When I first tried it you needed to install it.

But, what you're saying is that Windows XP can work, but isn't supported. That's completely fair from my perspective.

parlane: I'm not sure why this is so hard for people to grasp. Yes, we support Vista and anything newer. Just because a dependency is optional does not mean it's unsupported.

JMC4789: Yes.

The June 2010 DirectX SDK is REQUIRED if you are building on OR FOR a version of Windows PRIOR to Windows 8.

Maybe this is why it's hard to understand.

I can confirm that master presently successfully builds and runs on Windows 7, so this statement is incorrect.

Confirmed as well

I'll update the wiki to be:

The June 2010 DirectX SDK is REQUIRED if you are building on OR FOR Windows XP.

parlane: why does that make it hard to understand? It says "required" so people won't opt out, and then complain about not having XAudio2/XInput backends available.

Just look at the code if you have any further confusion:
https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/browse/Source/Core/InputCommon/Src/ControllerInterface/XInput/XInput.cpp#61
https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/browse/Source/Core/AudioCommon/Src/AudioCommon.cpp#37

https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/browse/Source/Core/AudioCommon/Src/XAudio2_7Stream.h#5

https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/browse/Source/Core/AudioCommon/Src/XAudio2_7Stream.cpp#5

https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/browse/Source/Core/AudioCommon/Src/XAudio2Stream.h#5

It says that June 2010 SDK is required for Windows 8. This is false. Seeing as people have built without issue without even having the 2010 sdk.

Umm, Xaudio2 is the audio backend I've been using all along on Windows 7. Am I missing something? Is it not supposed to be working on Windows 7 or something?

Additionally I have not even tested building on < Win8, without June 2010 SDK. It should work, but it seems like a pointless configuration to me (for that scenario, June 2010 SDK was required in the past, so why change it?), and a waste of time to test.

JMC4789: https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/browse/Source/Core/AudioCommon/Src/XAudio2_7Stream.h#5

parlane: That just means I rule at planning for scenarios without testing them, I guess? :)

Oh, that makes sense. Thanks for the quick explanation.

Also, googlecode does not warn me to refresh the page if someone has entered a comment while I'm typing. Annoying.

godisgovernment: I have, and it does build. Just no XAudio backend.

Wait...I missed comment #12:
#12 parlane
I'll update the wiki to be:

The June 2010 DirectX SDK is REQUIRED if you are building on OR FOR Windows XP.

Yeah...don't do that. DirectX SDK is unrelated to the XP issue. The XP issue is the runtime library, as I stated in comment #3, with a link to the msdn info about it. Also as I stated, we don't support XP, so don't put it on the wiki.

We will make x86 builds XP compat and 64 bit will only be vista+ compat.

NeoBrainX: read the responses, you are the one who requested them.

parlane: why. why do you have to be so annoying about this. Drop XP. Let it die. It will be unsupported by MS in 2 months. XP is an old, outdated, unsupported, and archaic platform which hinders usage of new features which have been developed in the FOURTEEN years since XP's release. Let it go, already.

Look, now the googlecode front page says Vista+. Wasn't so hard.

XP is not officially dropped until April 2014 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx

And I think it is a good compromise as people who are using 32bit builds shouldn't be using them on Vista+ anyway as Vista came in 64bit.

That makes no sense. XP came in x64 too.

We don't support XP x64! lol
Matthew Parlane

x86 is an old, outdated and archaic architecture that was developed nearly 30 years ago. Let it go already and move to WinRT ARM.

Nah, we need to drop ARM support too, it's an architecture with no less than three instruction encodings from 1985 (same year as protected mode!). I hear ARM64 is all the rage. Or maybe we should switch to Mill...

tueidj: I think the actual parallel would be with itanium/alpha/8086/etc :)

Guys, does dolphin run in 16bit unprotected mode? This is important feature.

Unfortunately even with highmem we would be limited to 1MB of memory. This is why we shouldn't have used C++, since the binary is 12MB. I suggest moving to Rust.

You can bypass that limit by making it a UEFI application, then you don't even need to worry about these pesky OS related issues. HF audio can even be used for netplay! #bottlenoseBIOS

Wow, that's a good idea. We can also use echolocation to warn oculus rift users of impending dangerous objects in the real world! BE the dolphin with #bottlenoseBIOS!

Bump. What's the status on this?

Windows XP still errors out with "Not a valid win32 program"

Is anyone interested in fixing this, or should Windows Vista become the minimum requirements?