[smartmontools-support] SmartMonTools V7.4: WinXP support?

[Christian Franke]

Christian Franke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hubert Hau wrote:
>> I want to report that starting with SmartMonTools V7.3 r5490 32-bit 
>> Executables (bin32\smartctl.exe etc.) do not run on WinXP 32-bit any 
>> longer - error is:
>>
>> Kernel32.dll: GetTickCount64 not found
>>
>> => Last version which runs on WinXP 32-bit is V7.3 r5489.
>>
>
> ...
>
>> Does this mean that SmartMonTools V7.4+ does not support WinXP (I 
>> need this old OS due to some SW dependencies...)?
>
> Possibly.
>
> I'll check which module using this function is linked and why. Perhaps 
> there is a workaround for this release.

The problem is that the GNU C++ exception support library uses pthreads 
and the MinGW-w64 version of pthreads now uses GetTickCount64() instead 
of GetTickCount(). Even a C++ "Hello World" program would need this 
function if std::cout is used instead of C stdout.

I did a quick "x86-pre-vista" build using the Docker image with the 
previous toolchains and uploaded it to our sourceforge project page. 
This should run on XP (not tested).

Hope this helps,
Christian