Update to VS26

[Detanup01]

Completes #387

[Detanup01]

Sadly no idea how to propertly download the right version for the 3rd party ones

[Detanup01]

man VSC is horrible with managing submodules

[Detanup01]

This sucks.
VS26 isnt in github actions.
I gonna kms

[Detanup01]

Ignore linux since those need newer ones which this one might not have

[Detanup01]

I left this here:

git submodule set-branch --branch thirdparty-deps-update third-party/deps/common
git submodule set-branch --branch thirdparty-common-linux-premake third-party/common/linux
git submodule set-branch --branch thirdparty-common-win-premake third-party/common/win
git submodule update --remote third-party/deps/common
git submodule update --remote third-party/common/linux
git submodule update --remote third-party/common/win

[Detanup01]

dry run rn not works on linux will see tmr

[Detanup01]

Everything works now

[Detanup01]

NOTICE: windows-2025 requests are being redirected to windows-2025-vs2026 by May 12, 2026

May 15-ish will be the update

[Mitch037]

This commit broke compatibility with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. VS26 minimum requirement is Windows 10.
The issue-related thread on the official VS26 forums.
Would it be possible to create a branch of gbe_fork built with VS22 which is compatible with older Windows versions?

[universal963]

Indeed, as what I have said in #387, "a breaking change notice is strongly recommended."

[Detanup01]

Isnt this only for building?
iirc premake update also required to update from old linux (ub20 => ub22)

Can try 2 builds but linux one dont think can be backward to ub20 so.
iirc you can just replace specific windows build stuff to build as vs22 instead (windows-2022)

[Detanup01]

Its easy to add back support to build with vs22 since it just a few edit and copy-paste.
But cant do much for linux unfortunately

[Mitch037]

Isnt this only for building?

It's not just about building, it's about using gbe_fork. The latest version of gbe_fork (2026/05/16) requires Windows 10/11 to run. I mean gbe_fork doesn't work if you try to launch games on Win7/8/8.1. It throws GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime() not found in Kernel32.dll error.

[Detanup01]

#515 This adds back VS22

[God-damnit-all]

For posterity (because things on Microsoft sites have a tendency to vanish due to their inability to stop touching things):

💬︎ Stephan T. Lavavej [MSFT]

This was my change and the behavior is by design. For efficiency on modern OSes, we’re unconditionally using new APIs, which is what produces the error you’re seeing. We don’t have an easy way to emit a graceful message on Win7, and we don’t have the capacity to spend additional engineering effort on this. However, I did update the VCRedist installer so it will fail with a clear message when installed on Win7 or Win8.0. (For technical reasons we can’t distinguish Win8.1, but that scenario is still unsupported; Win10 is the minimum requirement.)