Require Windows 10 for building Chromium
Windows 7 no longer works for building Chromium and nobody has
volunteered to add support and Windows 7 is an unsupported OS so this
change formalizes that Windows 10 is now required in order to build
Chromium. This updates the documentation and modifies one of the build
scripts so that a readable error message will be displayed when building
on Windows 7 is attempted.
Chromium and its derivatives still run on Windows 7. This only affects
developers.
Bug: 1150302
Change-Id: I1874c691a1405482232323bef025aba4b3ac74b0
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/2570075
Reviewed-by: Nico Weber <[email protected]>
Commit-Queue: Bruce Dawson <[email protected]>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#833327}
diff --git a/docs/windows_build_instructions.md b/docs/windows_build_instructions.md
index 05fe102f..5a58b355 100644
--- a/docs/windows_build_instructions.md
+++ b/docs/windows_build_instructions.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
* At least 100GB of free disk space on an NTFS-formatted hard drive. FAT32
will not work, as some of the Git packfiles are larger than 4GB.
* An appropriate version of Visual Studio, as described below.
-* Windows 7 or newer.
+* Windows 10 or newer.
## Setting up Windows
