On Mar 20 12:39, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote: > Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > You have to create an application with an application manifest not > > supporting your OS. > > > > For Cygwin apps, this occured when you built, say, an executable under > > Windows 8.1 before Windows 10 support was added to the Cygwin toolchain: > > the manifest linked to the Cygwin executable didn't yet contain a GUID > > entry for Windows 10 support. > > > > In this case, RtlGetVersion returns an OS version 6.3 even when running > > under the 10.0 kernel. This behaviour exists back 'til Windows Vista. > > Could not reproduce the latter on Win10. I tested with recent Win10 and > Win11 and also found a Win10 1511 (and Slackware 1.1.2, Win3.1, OS/2, ...) > in my VM image museum. > > Regardless of the exe manifest, RtlGetVersion and RtlGetNtVersionNumbers > return the correct versions: > 10.0.22621 (Win11 22H2) > 10.0.19045 (Win10 22H2) > 10.0.10586 (Win10 1511) > > Without a manifest, GetVersionEx returns: > 6.2.9200 (Win8)
Please check on commit 48511f3d3847c. It was a real, existing problem at the time. I wouldn't have added the RtlGetNtVersionNumbers call just for fun. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
