Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#1092 closed Bugs (wontfix)

[Boost.Filesystem] Program can't run under Win 98

Reported by: trigves@… Owned by: Beman Dawes
Milestone: To Be Determined Component: filesystem
Version: Boost 1.34.0 Severity: Regression
Keywords: filesystem win98 Cc:

Description

With boost.filesystem builded on Windows XP and then used in some other application (also build on Windows XP), application can't be run on Windows 98 SE with error message saying that CreateHardLinkA function is missing in kernel32.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Vladimir Prus, 15 years ago

Owner: set to Beman Dawes

comment:2 by Beman Dawes, 15 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

My interest in supporting Windows 98 is zero. If you want to submit a patch, I'll consider it, but it would have to leave the functionality intact for versions of Windows (and other operating systems) that do support the feature.

Sorry,

--Beman

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