filePro executables vs Win 2003

[Bill Randall]

Being a Microsoft software provider puts us at the whim of Microsoft.   The available dll's and other tools needed to work with Microsoft are provided by Microsoft.

When they update the C and C++ compilers that we use to create filePro for Windows, we have to depend on the libraries being available on the various versions of Windows in order for what we compiled to work.  Unfortunately when Microsoft elects to stop supporting a version of Windows, those dll update and versions are no longer available for those OS versions and our version of filePro will not work without them.  And on top of that, there are only allowed certain public dll's that we can supply in our install.

So 5.8.XX.06 was the last compile that was compatible with what Microsoft decided.  When 5.8.XX.07 was compiled we were forced to use the latest available libraries supplied through the license agreement with Microsoft.  Anything after 5.8.XX.06 will not run on XP or Win 2003 Server.

It is not that filePro stopped working, but that our updates would not work with the no longer supported operating system versions.

It is more like 'Backwards Compatibility' is not a feature of Windows.

Bill


On 5/14/2018 3:57 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> Yeah, but "stopped updating" and "removed" are two entirely different
> things.
>
> Were the binaries -ever- working on the system in question, or did they
> simply stop one day?
>
> m->
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 06:55:10PM +0000, Robert Haussmann via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> To follow up, we heard back from FP Support and it appears that only versions 5.8.07 and lower are supported on Windows XP/2003.  Apparently Microsoft has stopped updating the necessary libraries for these OSes (as they are no longer supported).
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: George Simon [mailto:flowersoft at compuserve.com]
>>>> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 1:36 PM
>>>> To: Robert Haussmann <haussma at nextdimension.net>; 'Filepro List'
>>>> <filepro-list at celestial.com>
>>>> Subject: RE: filePro executables vs Win 2003
>>>>
>>>> I am getting the same error message, not with filePro because I am
>>>> still running 5.0.14, but with an .exe program I use to get credit
>>>> card authorizations.
>>>> It only happens with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Filepro-list
>>>> <filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com>
>>>> On Behalf Of Robert Haussmann via Filepro-list
>>>> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 4:50 PM
>>>> To: Filepro List <filepro-list at celestial.com>
>>>> Subject: filePro executables vs Win 2003
>>>>
>>>> Figure this is a long shot, but does anyone know if there were any
>>>> changes in recent versions of FP (32 bit) that would keep them from
>>>> working under Windows 2003?  The latest (5.8.00.15R9) EXEs do not seem
>>>> to work ("dclerk.exe is not a valid WIN32 application") on Win2003,
>>>> but work just fine under Win 2008/2012 (these are 64 bit versions,
>>>> however we are downloading the 32 bit versions assuming it would be
>>> backward compatible).
>>>> The 5.8.00.00D9 32-bit version works fine on all platforms.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bob
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