What is the minimal OS to run the official drmingw release?

[asmwarrior]

Hi, we have a discussion here:

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in our Code::Blocks forum, one developer using Win7 64 bit can't not run the drmingw 0.9.7. Because some DLL files are missing.
I don't such issue in my Win7, because I maybe have some KBxxxxx installed which contains the necessary dlls.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[jrfonseca]

It sounds the developer might be using a Windows 7 installation that lacks all updates from Microsoft.

I'm afraid I can't afford chasing problems with out of date Windows 7 installations. I can't be sure that alone fixes the problem, but dealing with out of date Windows 7 installations presents too many unknowns, and there's no good reason to support it.

I know updating Windows 7 can be tricky, as I recently experienced, because a Windows 7 freshly installed from an ISO is not able to automatically download updates from Microsoft, and one needs to follow the steps described here to bootstrap.

But the above difficulties are not an excuse not to do it. It's imperative folks using Windows 7 do so, not only for better security, but also so we have all comparable systems.

In short, to answer your question, the minimal OS to run drmingw releases is Windows 7 SP1, plus Platform Update, and all other updates from Microsoft Update. Anything older is unsupported.

If the issue still reproduces after installing all Windows 7 updates, then let me know, and I'll look into it.

[asmwarrior]

I understand your option, and thanks for the explanation.