Is it possible to run CoreCLR on Windows XP?

Question

Now we have a free open-source implementation of the .NET core: CoreCLR. It supports Windows and Linux operation system, Mac OS support is planned. Is it possible to run CoreCLR on Windows XP?

Answer 1

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy. So it IS possible, but since XP might lack some low level APIs that are consumed in the Win 8/10 hosting implementation plus some native C/C++ compiler/target oddities, you could be in for a long road. Then again, is targeting XP for Core CLR really "interesting"...? ;)

Answer 2

I dont think so. The reason is as follows: Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/standard/library

Windows XP does not support any .NET framewrk higher than 4.0. and .NET 4.0 based winform apps or class libraries cannot reference .NET Core 1.x class libraries.

You might have better luck recompiling .NET core SDK, core clr & Corefx from sources for windows XP or any other operating system but I reckon its going to be very hard. If it were easier, MSFT would have done it in the first place.

About .NET CORE 2.0? Reference: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/roadmap.md#technology-roadmaps