Use Thunk to build your Rust program to support old Windows platforms

Thunk uses VC-LTL5 and YY-Thunks to build programs that support even Windows XP. So, how does it work?

Note: Thunk does not guarantee the compiled program work or work accurately on old platforms. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Usage (As Command line tool)

Download VC-LTL5 and YY-Thunks Binary, unzip them and add environment variable:

| Binary | Environment Variable | | --- | ---| | VC-LTL-XXX-Binary.7z | VC_LTL | | YY-Thunks-XXX-Binary.zip | YY_THUNKS |

Then add Thunk to run path.

cargo install thunk-cli

cargo new build_for_xp
cd build_for_xp
thunk --os xp --arch x86 -- --release

cargo new build_for_xp
cd build_for_xp
thunk --os xp --arch x86 --lib -- --release

Use the following command to show help:

thunk.exe --help

Note: In order to distinguish the program build by Thunk, Thunk builds the release in ./target/*_build.

Step1: Ensure command line tools curl and 7z could be found in PATH. (Needed if VC_LTL and YY_THUNKS not found in environment variables)

Step2: Add thunk as a build dependency:

cargo add thunk-rs --build

Step3: Create a build script build.rs:

fn main() {
    thunk::thunk();
}

Then, your program should run on Windows XP. See thunk-rs.