[Qt-interest] Windows 7 Style not showing?

[Constantin Makshin]

Yes, VC2010 requires at least Windows XP SP2.

But:
1) you still can use the latest Windows SDK with previous (not too old, though) versions of MSVC;
2) a guy on one forum says "if you really need to support Win2K, you can use a new VC++2010 feature called "Multi targetting". With this feature you can use VS 2010 to compile the application with an older version of the compiler and libraries. I never tried it myself, but if you have VC++ 2010 and VC++ 2008 installed, you can use the 2010 IDE and use multi targetting to let 2010 use the compilers/libraries from 2008."

Also, Qt Software (Nokia) dropped Windows 2000 support in Qt 4.5, so if you want to support Win2K, you have to stick to the "MSVC 2008 RTM - Qt 4.4.x" combination. Using newer version of Visual C++ [compiler] will make your applications completely unusable because Win2000 users won't be able to run them. Using newer version of Qt is risky because noone guarantees correct behavior on an unsupported platform.

On Tuesday 09 November 2010 17:46:12 Alex Strickland wrote:
> On 2010/11/09 04:38 PM, Constantin Makshin wrote:
> 
> > Lack of Windows 2000 in the list of supported platforms doesn't mean your applications compiled with this SDK won't work on Win2K. ;)
> 
> But note that compiling with VS2010 does.
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