Windows 7 support for MinGW

[daniel-starke]

Problem:

I have tried running aws-lc-rs (Rust) on Windows 7 after building it for the target x86_64-win7-windows-gnu. Unfortunately, the builder only understands the MSVC target in case of Windows 7. Hence, the executable exists via abort() here: https://github.com/aws/aws-lc/blob/9124e2b6746f07fa9abcbfb6dfe873fa0a38b226/crypto/rand_extra/windows.c#L66

See also: https://github.com/aws/aws-lc-rs/pull/1000/changes

Related: aws/aws-lc#1997

Solution:

Please adjust the builder to handle the x86_64-win7-windows-gnu target correctly as well.

[torben-hansen]

Should this be an aws-lc-rs issue?

[daniel-starke]

True. Looks like I got a bit distracted by the related issue.
Should I open a new one under aws-lc-rs?

[torben-hansen]

There, did it for you :)

[justsmth]

Hello! aws-lc-rs v1.17.0 has been released, which contains build changes to address this runtime failure. (The fix here is a workaround until the upstream fix in AWS-LC is merged.)

This issue will now be closed. Please let us know if you have any other problems with our library after upgrading. Feel free to comment here or open a new issue if needed. Thanks for helping to improve our library!