[pypy-dev] pypy 3.6 and WinXP

[Joseph Jenne]

On 5/28/20 8:58 AM, Denis Cardon wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> sorry if this is not the best place to ask the question, feel free to 
> forward me to a better place for this kind of question :-)
>
> I was wondering PyPy 3.6 is supposed to run on WinXP SP3 32bit. 
> Running the pypy3.exe says that it not a valid win32 app (but it runs 
> fine on win7), like if it was a 64bit application only... The vc2015 
> dependency install fine on WinXP however there is no mention on PyPy 
> website if it supposed to work...
>
> WinXP is actually still very common in industrial setups and it would 
> be great if it would work with PyPy as CPython has drop WinXP support 
> after 3.4.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Denis
Although it may make sense to support it, Windows XP is long past end of 
life, and so continued support for it should not be expected, since even 
Microsoft doesn't support it anymore.