Those instructions are for Windows 7+, I don't believe Msys2 will work on Vista or XP.

While theoretically Pd could be build on anything with a C compiler, I think you're a bit more on your own with setting up / maintaining a build system for anything that old at this point. Maybe someone else has some ideas on that, I sure don't.

On Mar 22, 2018, at 6:01 AM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:01:38 +0100
From: rolfm@dds.nl
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Subject: Re: [PD] compiling PD on windows
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my ultimate goal is to be able to compile on an older machine with XP.

to get experience i first tried on Windows 10.

installed MSYS2 etc (following Dan's instructions on the GITHUB page.

start MSYS2, cd to the src folder of Vanilla 48.1, and do

make

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