doc: Update documentation about Windows platforms support a bit

Update what c-extensions says about Windows platforms support a bit:
- Document that MinGW Win32 gets let off being POSIX-compilant
- Document the minimum Windows version supported

Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Colin Harrison <colin.harrison@virgin.net>
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Jon TURNEY 2012-05-01 20:08:41 +01:00
parent cc1d8fa8a4
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@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The server will not build if your toolchain does not support these extensions.
* interleaved code and declarations: { foo = TRUE; int bar; do_stuff(); }
Use of OS and library facilities throughout the X server tree
Use of library facilities throughout the X server tree
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Non-OS-dependent code can assume facilities at least as good as
@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ be C99, but even gcc+glibc doesn't implement that yet.
Unix-like systems are assumed to be at least as good as UNIX03.
Note that there are two Windows ports, Cygwin and MinGW:
- Cygwin is more or less like Linux.
- MinGW is more restrictive. Windows does not provide the required
POSIX facilities, so some non-OS-dependent code is stubbed out or
has an alternate implementation if WIN32 is defined. Code that
needs to be portable to Windows should be careful to, well, be portable.
Required OS facilities
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Linux systems must be at least 2.4 or later. As a practical matter
though, 2.4 kernels never receive any testing. Use 2.6 already.
@ -51,11 +62,7 @@ TODO: Solaris.
TODO: *BSD.
Code that needs to be portable to Windows should be careful to,
well, be portable. Note that there are two Windows ports, cygwin and
mingw. Cygwin is more or less like Linux, but mingw is a bit more
restrictive. TODO: document which versions of Windows we actually care
about.
Windows-dependent code assumes at least NT 5.1.
OSX support is generally limited to the most recent version. Currently
that means 10.5.