[Python-checkins] bpo-32592: Set Windows 8 as the minimum required version for API support (GH-15951)

[Zachary Ware]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0b72ccff56fb47e14f7b1f6590eafff8d104c229
commit: 0b72ccff56fb47e14f7b1f6590eafff8d104c229
branch: master
author: Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org>
committer: Zachary Ware <zachary.ware at gmail.com>
date: 2019-09-11T17:03:37+01:00
summary:

bpo-32592: Set Windows 8 as the minimum required version for API support (GH-15951)

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-11-14-51-56.bpo-32592.jvQMD9.rst
M Modules/posixmodule.c
M PC/pyconfig.h

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-11-14-51-56.bpo-32592.jvQMD9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-11-14-51-56.bpo-32592.jvQMD9.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c07a1213308e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-11-14-51-56.bpo-32592.jvQMD9.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Set Windows 8 as the minimum required version for API support
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 089572f4fdab..e71d4b28bd1e 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -12204,8 +12204,6 @@ os_cpu_count_impl(PyObject *module)
 {
     int ncpu = 0;
 #ifdef MS_WINDOWS
-    /* Declare prototype here to avoid pulling in all of the Win7 APIs in 3.8 */
-    DWORD WINAPI GetActiveProcessorCount(WORD group);
     ncpu = GetActiveProcessorCount(ALL_PROCESSOR_GROUPS);
 #elif defined(__hpux)
     ncpu = mpctl(MPC_GETNUMSPUS, NULL, NULL);
diff --git a/PC/pyconfig.h b/PC/pyconfig.h
index 9304c7257c66..d407e1d4632a 100644
--- a/PC/pyconfig.h
+++ b/PC/pyconfig.h
@@ -135,9 +135,9 @@ WIN32 is still required for the locale module.
 #endif /* MS_WIN64 */
 
 /* set the version macros for the windows headers */
-/* Python 3.5+ requires Windows Vista or greater */
-#define Py_WINVER 0x0600 /* _WIN32_WINNT_VISTA */
-#define Py_NTDDI NTDDI_VISTA
+/* Python 3.9+ requires Windows 8 or greater */
+#define Py_WINVER 0x0602 /* _WIN32_WINNT_WIN8 */
+#define Py_NTDDI NTDDI_WIN8
 
 /* We only set these values when building Python - we don't want to force
    these values on extensions, as that will affect the prototypes and