Windows 7 latest version

[KamikazeePL]

For Windows 7 latest working version of rustic is 0.7.0
restic latest version is 0.16.2

[aawsome]

Hey, thanks for the information!

I am a bit irritated - AFAIK Windows 7 is supported until Rust 1.77. And we changed MSRV to 1.80 only with 0.10.0.
So I would expect 0.9.5 to be still working with Windows 7. Or did you use a (pre-)compiled binary which has been compiled with Rust >1.77?

[aawsome]

See rust-lang/rust#143268:

Seems like windows 7 is still supported using special targets (i686-win7-windows-msvc and x86_64-win7-windows-msvc, and -gnu) which however are Tier 3 on Rust support, so I don't know if they are working.

Is there anyone out there who needs Windows 7 support? If yes, we can try out if those targets work or if they pose problems/difficulties..

[KamikazeePL]

I would like support for Windows 7 if it is possible.

[aawsome]

I tried to add Windows7 support for the official releases in #1641. But this fails as the windows 7 target is not supported by the toolchain we are using.
So current state is, we don't officially support Windows 7.

I've seen for restic some users made their own port/build environment to create a restic binary for Windows 7. Maybe someone can do it similarly for rustic? It shouldn't be about the code which should work on the needed targets (i686-win7-windows-msvc and x86_64-win7-windows-msvc, and -gnu). But tooling is the main issue here (which we won't/can't solve in the rustic project).

Another possibility for volunteers is working on Rust to get the targets to Tier2 in which case rustic (and many other Rust programs) should be able to build Win7 executables with the standard toolchain.

[i486]

@KamikazeePL

Hi
Could you try this on a Win7 VM? I am not familar with the tool , as I came across this repository while searching Rust projects.

I've managed to build 0a0db76 with Win7-msvc target on a Windows 7 host using Rust 1.93 stable. Since both win7 host and target are not really supported, some minor hacks were required to get it to build. Therefore, testing in a VM is highly recommended.

rustic v0.10.3-win7.zip

[aawsome]

Hi @i486
If you needed to modify the rustic source code, please open a PR with these modification under a #[cfg] platform-dependent compilation directive! Not officially supporting it doesn't mean we won't include the needed changes to build it in the source code!