Thunk: Enabling Your Rust Programs to Run on Ancient Windows

2025-09-04
Thunk: Enabling Your Rust Programs to Run on Ancient Windows

Thunk is a Rust tool that leverages VC-LTL5 and YY-Thunks libraries to enable your Rust programs to run on older Windows systems, even Windows XP. It achieves compatibility by adding VC-LTL to the library search path and using YY-Thunks to compensate for missing APIs in older systems. Thunk offers both command-line tool and library usage, simplifying the process of building programs and shared libraries compatible with older Windows versions. Note: Thunk doesn't guarantee perfect compatibility on older systems; use at your own risk.

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