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Change target platform version to Windows 7

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Tuesday, August 9, 2016 11:03 AM

Before building a project in Visual C++, when I check the target platform version, I only see 8.1. I cannot change that to 7, which is my target platform.

For that, the directx project I'm building doesn't run succesfully. It seeks for such dlls (i.e: d3dcompiler_47.dll and others...) those are present on windows 8.1, but not In windows 7(windows 7 has d3dcompiler_33.dll to d3dcompiler_43.dll). I only get lots of dll missing errors.

If also tried:

#define _WIN32_WINNT_WIN7                   0x0601 //windows 7

in the targetver.h file but nothing succesful. i wan't build it for Windows 7 so that I can run it smoothly on 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.

I'm using:

  • Visual Studio 2015 Community with update 3
  • Windows 7 32-bit SP1
  • Windows 8.1 SDK which installed along with Visual Studio

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Thursday, August 11, 2016 5:20 AM ✅Answered

Hi Borno11050，

Thank you for your post.

To target Windows 7 or Windows Vista, use the value 8.1, since Windows SDK 8.1 is backward compatible to those platforms. In addition, you should define the appropriate value for _WIN32_WINNT in targetver.h. For Windows 7, that's 0x0601. See Modifying WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT.

Please refer to:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8x480de8.aspx

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