Windows XP support

[therevillsParticipant]

Carrying on from this post: http://monkey2.monkey-x.com/forums/topic/import-png-or-similar-yet/

Mark has said:

“Windows XP is not ‘officially’ supported sorry.

It may or may not be theoretically possible to get monkey2 going on Windows XP (and if you or someone else can get it going, I’m happy to add the fixes to the repos) but I wont be attempting this myself.”

Which I can totally understand, but for casual developers like myself, I need a tool which can still support Windows XP.

I have tested running on the following hardware/OS:

OS: Windows XP SP2 32bit
CPU: Intel Celeron E1200
RAM: 2GB
GPU: Intel GMA3100
DX: 9c

Running Ted2 and MonkeyRoids fails to start with the same error:

The procedure entry point CancelIoEx could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll

If I comment out CancelIoEx from modules\std\process\native\process.cpp and modules\std\process\native\procutil.h, then rebuild the modiles, now when I execute MonkeyRoids I dont receive an error message (YAY!)…. but the game doesnt start (BOO!).

I can see that the process starts in the Task Manager, but it closes nearly straight away…

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Steve

[therevillsParticipant]

A simple console application works:

Monkey

Function Main:Void() Print "TESTING..." End

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Function Main:Void() Print "TESTING..." End

When I execute the exe via command prompt in Windows XP, I get the output “TESTING…”

[therevillsParticipant]

I added a bunch of Print statements to the Sdl2test, but I get nothing when executing the exe via the command prompt

Monkey

#import "<libc>" #import "<sdl2>" #import "<gles20>" Namespace sdl2test Using sdl2.. Using gles20.. Class SdlWindow Field sdlWindow:SDL_Window Ptr Field sdlGLContext:SDL_GLContext Method New() Print "SdlWindow CTOR" Print "1" SDL_Init( SDL_INIT_VIDEO ) Print "2" libc.atexit( SDL_Quit ) Print "3" SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_MASK,SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_ES ) Print "4" SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MAJOR_VERSION,2 ) SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MINOR_VERSION,0 ) Print "5" sdlWindow=SDL_CreateWindow( "SDL2 OpenGL Window",SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,640,480,SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL ) Print "6" sdlGLContext=SDL_GL_CreateContext( sdlWindow ) Print "7" SDL_GL_MakeCurrent( sdlWindow,sdlGLContext ) Print "8" End Method Run() Repeat Local event:SDL_Event While( SDL_PollEvent( Varptr event ) ) Select event.type Case SDL_WINDOWEVENT Local wevent:=Cast<SDL_WindowEvent Ptr>( Varptr event ) Select wevent->event Case SDL_WINDOWEVENT_CLOSE libc.exit_(0) End End Wend Print "B4" OnRender() Print "A4" SDL_GL_SwapWindow( sdlWindow ) Forever End Method OnRender() Print "OnRender" glClearColor( 1,1,0,1 ) glClear( GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT ) End End Function Main() Print "MAIN" Local window:=New SdlWindow window.Run() End

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#import "<libc>" #import "<sdl2>" #import "<gles20>"   Namespace sdl2test   Using sdl2.. Using gles20..   Class SdlWindow   Field sdlWindow:SDL_Window Ptr   Field sdlGLContext:SDL_GLContext Method New() Print "SdlWindow CTOR" Print "1" SDL_Init( SDL_INIT_VIDEO ) Print "2" libc.atexit( SDL_Quit ) Print "3" SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_MASK,SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_ES ) Print "4" SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MAJOR_VERSION,2 ) SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MINOR_VERSION,0 ) Print "5" sdlWindow=SDL_CreateWindow( "SDL2 OpenGL Window",SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,640,480,SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL ) Print "6" sdlGLContext=SDL_GL_CreateContext( sdlWindow ) Print "7" SDL_GL_MakeCurrent( sdlWindow,sdlGLContext ) Print "8" End Method Run() Repeat Local event:SDL_Event While( SDL_PollEvent( Varptr event ) ) Select event.type Case SDL_WINDOWEVENT Local wevent:=Cast<SDL_WindowEvent Ptr>( Varptr event ) Select wevent->event Case SDL_WINDOWEVENT_CLOSE libc.exit_(0) End End   Wend Print "B4" OnRender() Print "A4" SDL_GL_SwapWindow( sdlWindow )   Forever End Method OnRender() Print "OnRender" glClearColor( 1,1,0,1 ) glClear( GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT ) End End     Function Main() Print "MAIN" Local window:=New SdlWindow window.Run() End

[therevillsParticipant]

I’ve had responses from the major casual game portals, there is still around 10% of their market which still uses Windows XP.

Which I think is still large enough to try to support… so I’ll keep investigating MX2 XP support when I have time.

[PhilParticipant]

To have XP support would really be nice. I am working on an educational game in monkey1 and there are a lot of XP computers in schools here in Germany. They often get older computers from companies for free.

I think optional XP support could also be like a label marketing-wise to show, that you just don’t have to worry if your game runs on your customer’s pc. For me it definitely was a reason for buying monkeyX in the beginning.

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