There's a surprisingly large Windows XP community; everything from security patches to browsers[0] to third party Discord clients[1].

[0] https://www.mypal-browser.org/ [1] https://github.com/DiscordMessenger/dm

If you ever wanted to use a modern C and C++ compiler on windows xp, 32 bit version of w64devkit[1] does target it and provides a recent gcc version.

[1] https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit

I wonder if some of those things can be solved via a shim DLL that provides the necessary missing WinAPI functions instead of modifying the source code. Although the number of changes required seems vanishingly small anyway, so either approach coukd work just fine.

Since hardware prices have skyrocketed, it is very important to run software on low-end hardware and use a suitable operating system, such as Windows 7, whose support, amusingly, has been dropped by nearly every project recently. Backporting software to Windows 7 is something we must do, for our freedom and our wallets.

Dotnet 10 for Windows XP

https://github.com/kalnod/Win32Dotnet10Starter

Strangely, AutoHotKey v1.1 scripts when compiled in ANSI mode runs perfectly on Windows XP.

AHK came in very handy we needed a quick tool to track mill operators, roughly 20-30 lines of code and we had a working GUI app.

> Added back 5ms sleep on Windows 7/8 in (*Process).Wait (reverted f0894a0)

This was interesting!

What applications are base on this? I mean it sounds super charming and nostalgic to drop a line or two which runs on WinXP, but is this actually useful?

Is it hard to write software that compiles and can run on windows XP now? What about like rust and python?

sadly doesn't work on winxp x86 - just tried. not a valid win32 application.