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2.4.1 Supported Platforms ¶

As of 2024, the list of supported platforms is the following:

• glibc systems. With glibc 2.19 or newer, they are frequently tested. About the kernels:
  • glibc on Linux is frequently tested.
  • glibc on kFreeBSD is rarely tested.
  • musl libc on Linux is occasionally tested.
• macOS. In versions 12.5, it’s occasionally tested. In version 10.5, it’s rarely tested.
• FreeBSD 14.0 or newer is occasionally tested.
• OpenBSD 7.0 or newer is occasionally tested.
• NetBSD 10.0 or newer is occasionally tested.
• AIX 7.1 and 7.3 are occasionally tested.
• Solaris 10 and 11.4 are occasionally tested. Solaris 9 is rarely tested and low priority.
• Android is occasionally tested, through the Termux app on Android 11.
• Cygwin 2.9 and 3.4 are occasionally tested. Cygwin 1.7.x no longer tested.
• Native Windows:
  • mingw is occasionally tested. Only the latest version of mingw is tested; older versions are not supported.
  • MSVC 14 (Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 14.0) is occasionally tested. Only “release” builds (compiler option ‘-MD’) are supported, not “debug” builds (compiler option ‘-MDd’).

  Note that some modules are currently unsupported on native Windows: mgetgroups, getugroups, idcache, userspec, openpty, login_tty, forkpty, pt_chown, grantpt, pty-h, savewd, mkancesdirs, mkdir-p, euidaccess, faccessat. The versions of Windows that are supported are Windows 10 and newer.

• GNU Hurd 0.9 is rarely tested.
• Minix 3.3.0 is no longer tested.
• Haiku is no longer tested.
• uClibc on Linux is no longer tested.
• QNX is no longer tested.