[Python-Dev] VS 11 Express is Metro only.

[Larry Hastings]

On 05/30/2012 12:43 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> Please understand that Visual Studio never had the notion of 
> "targetting" an operating system. The Windows SDK has that notion, and 
> it appears that targetting XP continues to be supported.

I may be misremembering, but--the C API of necessity calls the Win32 
API.  So if Microsoft chooses to call new Win32 APIs as part of the C 
API, this can force you to require a minimum Windows version.  I dimly 
recall an incident some years back where part of the startup code for a 
C program (code called before main / WinMain) was calling a newish API, 
and thus programs generated with that version of the compiler could not 
support older Windows versions.


//arry/
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