[erlang-bugs] Erlang on Windows NT4

[doug mansell]

Hello,

Related to Sebastian's observations;  the docs on embedded systems
need updating too:

http://www.erlang.org/doc/embedded/embedded_nt.html#2

is still referring to NT 4 sp4 as the minimum Windows platform.

doug


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Sebastian Egner <s.egner@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As the release notes for Erts 5.6.1 report under Section 1.4.1
> "Improvements and New Features",
> Windows NT4 is not supported any longer by Erlang/OTP, i.e. from R12B incl.
>
> Indeed, trying to install Erlang/OTP R12B-3 on a Windows-NT4 system reports:
>
>    "The procedure entry point GetLongPathNameW could not be located in
> the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll",
>
> without any indication that this Windows OS is not supported, and no
> Erlang VM can be run.