Hello,

the IDDE offers a choice under Project Settings -> Target -> Platform. I can choose between Windows 95, Windows NT,
Win32s (and others, but that's beyond my question). My question is now: What's the actual difference between them? Which
of them would I pick for maximum compatability to all versions of 32 bit Windows? And then, when would I need or want to
use the others? Does the compiler actually do something different? Does it generate better optimized code?
For example, does code compiled for Windows NT work "better" on Windows NT than code that was compiled for Windows 95 or
Win32s? Does code compiled for Windows NT or Windows 95 still run on Win32s?

Thanks for any answers,
John

John Doe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the IDDE offers a choice under Project Settings -> Target -> Platform. I can choose between Windows 95, Windows NT,
> Win32s (and others, but that's beyond my question). My question is now: What's the actual difference between them? Which
> of them would I pick for maximum compatability to all versions of 32 bit Windows? And then, when would I need or want to
> use the others? Does the compiler actually do something different? Does it generate better optimized code?
> For example, does code compiled for Windows NT work "better" on Windows NT than code that was compiled for Windows 95 or
> Win32s? Does code compiled for Windows NT or Windows 95 still run on Win32s?

These days, just use Windows NT. Win32s is painfully obsolete, and Win95 isn't worth the bother. All this switch does is mark the executable so that Windows itself knows how to handle it.

== Auszug aus Walter Bright (newshound1@digitalmars.com)'s Artikel

> These days, just use Windows NT. Win32s is painfully obsolete,
and Win95
> isn't worth the bother. All this switch does is mark the
executable so
> that Windows itself knows how to handle it.

Thanks! - John