Re: [Lynx-dev] Latest Lynx version?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:10:33PM +0000, Jangly Mark wrote:
> Hi, there,
>        Is there a version of the Lynx text-only browser available for
> Windows 7 Home Premium?

I built executables on Windows 8, which worked-for-me with my Windows 7
machines (Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate):

https://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx.html

As far as I know, that should work.

To run the executable that uses SSL, you'll have to follow the
instructions on that page to get the corresponding DLLs.
The other installers (which cannot connect to https)
should't need extra DLLs.

Older stuff (someone was asking about Windows XP a few months ago) won't work.
That was because Microsoft changed some DLLs.  Quoting from my reply:

>hmm - I didn't test with anything older than Windows 7.
>XP went out of support a couple of years ago:
>
>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14223/windows-xp-end-of-support
>
>I do have a Windows XP virtual machine, and in a quick check,
>the _installer_ runs (for me), but the executable doesn't
>(after install), probably due to some entrypoint needed by
>the SSL libraries.  The installer did copy the right files.
>But "depends" says it's missing ieshims.dll and wer.dll,
>which see
>
>https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/8a751f65-ade9-4b8b-a3d3-c720ccbd3d2c/ieshimsdll-missing?forum=w7itproinstall
>
>are not present with Windows XP.
>
>So... to make an installer (or executable) work with Windows XP,
>I'd have to build it there.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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