In what environment to program for Windows XP?

Question

Windows

Compatibility with Windows XP SP3 and above is required, the build format is a native application, an ide is needed.

Further lyrical digression, do not be strongly attached to this.

I tried to install SDK Qt 5 pieces, five versions - it will not install (I do not remember the error, under win xp). VS C++ Express 2008 and 2010 can't be downloaded officially these days, I found one portable on torrents, but I haven't been able to install it yet because of errors (under win7 yet).

Answer 1

There was support for Windows XP in Visual Studio 2017. You just need to select a specific toolset.

Answer 2

The horse is dead. Shoot the horse.
for Windows XP now to do something is a great price.

Answer 3

If you need an environment on WinXP, then Delphi 7, and, accordingly, the Delphi language.
If the environment can be installed on fresh Windows, then RAD Studio 10.4 CE, and the Delphi language.
The created software (VCL) works fine on WinXP
RAD Studio, by the way, it also has C ++ Builder, which also allows you to create software that works on WinXP

Answer 4

XP? Would you still remember ME or Windows 3.1

Answer 5

VB6

Answer 6

If you are sitting on Visual Studio, then tolerate Microsoft's policy. They don't officially support XP. In a few years, 7s and 10s will also become a thing of the past.
The universal answer is assembler plus documentation on the Windows API. And so anything is not micro-Soviet. You can even write in C ++ in a regular notepad if you need this particular language. After all compilers are separate from IDE.
I can also advise you to first install XP on a separate machine or on a virtual machine - and install old versions of VS on it. But this is from the series just to try, without a guarantee that it will start.

Answer 7

You are confusing two things - developing for WinXP and developing for WinXP. It's not the same at all. To write programs that will work in WinXP, it is not at all necessary to sit under WinXP.
But in general, yes, it is not necessary to support it anymore.