Show HN: Rust9x 1.76-beta – Rust on Windows 95+

2 years ago (seri.tools)

HN discussion about the initial release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112273

Could this be upstreamed to Rust proper, at least as a no_std (core+alloc only) target (given the known quirks in std support)? The requirements for the lowest level of support ("tier 3") seem like they would allow this.

  • Without std there is nothing to do, i586-pc-windows-msvc/gnu already work just fine - the PE format hasn't changed, really. Just don't use APIs that don't exist on the OS version you're targeting and you're good to go!