I'd like to upgrade our 32-bit Windows buildbot from XP to 8.1 in the
near future. Aside from the obvious EOL issue it's difficult to use
automated management and packaging tools like Puppet and Chocolatey
under XP. Upgrading would also let us build releases using Visual C++
2012 and later, assuming we set up XP targeting correctly[1].
However, we still have lots of users on XP and need to make sure we
remain compatible for the time being. Is there a way to test an
application for XP compatibility without actually running it under XP?
Ideally it would be something that we could add to the automated build
system.
[1]http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/10/08/windows-xp-targeting-with-c-in-visual-studio-2012.aspx