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Building projects in Delphi 10 Seattle on windows 7 - do they work in windows 10?


Is windows 10 backwards compatible for exe files built by delphi 10 in windows7?

My attempts to provoke crashes in windows 10 have all failed, but i cant find any documentation to back up my theory, can anyone help?


Solution

  • Windows 10 up to now will run any cleanly written 32 bit Windows executable. It does not matter whether the executable was compiled on Windows 7 or Windows 10.

    (For what it's worth: Even Programs written with Delphi 6 and compiled on Windows 95 will work under Windows 10, as long as they behave. That is mostly: Don't write to c:\program files or HKLM in the registry. They will not be able to detect the correct Windows version or use some newer Windows features though.)