Our support statement for Windows currently talks about "Vista / Server
2008" - which is related to the API of Windows, and this is not easy
to understand for the non-technical users. Additionally, glib sets the
_WIN32_WINNT macro to 0x0601 already, which indicates the Windows 7 API,
so QEMU effectively depends on the Windows 7 API, too.
Thus let's bump the _WIN32_WINNT setting in QEMU to the same level as
glib uses and adjust our support statement in the documentation to
something similar that we're using for Linux and the *BSD systems
(i.e. only the two most recent versions), which should hopefully be
easier to understand for the users now.
And since we're nowadays also compile-testing QEMU with MSYS2 on Windows
itself, I think we could mention this build environment here, too.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/880
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
v3:
- Add words about the dependency between glib and _WIN32_WINNT
- Addded Reviewed-bys from Daniel and Stefan (if you don't like
the new comments from v3, please complain!)
docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 14 +++++++++-----
configure | 2 ++
include/qemu/osdep.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
index e9163ba556..1958edb430 100644
--- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
+++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
@@ -86,11 +86,15 @@ similar versions.
Windows
-------
-The project supports building with current versions of the MinGW toolchain,
-hosted on Linux (Debian/Fedora).
-
-The version of the Windows API that's currently targeted is Vista / Server
-2008.
+The project aims to support the two most recent versions of Windows that are
+still supported by the vendor. The minimum Windows API that is currently
+targeted is "Windows 7", so theoretically the QEMU binaries can still be run
+on older versions of Windows, too. However, such old versions of Windows are
+not tested anymore, so it is recommended to use one of the latest versions of
+Windows instead.
+
+The project supports building QEMU with current versions of the MinGW
+toolchain, either hosted on Linux (Debian/Fedora) or via MSYS2 on Windows.
.. _Homebrew: https://brew.sh/
.. _MacPorts: https://www.macports.org/
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e77b29b093..443d1741bf 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1490,6 +1490,8 @@ fi
##########################################
# glib support probe
+# When bumping glib_req_ver, please check also whether we should increase
+# the _WIN32_WINNT setting in osdep.h according to the value from glib
glib_req_ver=2.56
glib_modules=gthread-2.0
if test "$modules" = yes; then
diff --git a/include/qemu/osdep.h b/include/qemu/osdep.h
index 1c1e7eca98..a72e99db85 100644
--- a/include/qemu/osdep.h
+++ b/include/qemu/osdep.h
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ QEMU_EXTERN_C int daemon(int, int);
#ifdef _WIN32
/* as defined in sdkddkver.h */
#ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
-#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0600 /* Vista */
+#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0601 /* Windows 7 API (should be in sync with glib) */
#endif
/* reduces the number of implicitly included headers */
#ifndef WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
--
2.27.0