Thanks to Ghevan who spent a week or so working on an XP build, there's now an installer for XP ready for testing. There are some limitations: no vectorization with Vc, no OpenEXR and the array clones plugin is disabled for now.

Check it out at http://www.valdyas.org/~boud/krita_x86_2.7.8.70.msi

And please report your experiences. Note that you need service pack 3! If it works for most people, I will put it up on the public download page as well.

Hello, just some pointers after installing this build in all my windows XP PCs: An updated windows XP is needed to make krita install. If the installer complains about the version of windows installer (in case you had automatic updates off for over 4 years) you need at least Windows installer 4.5 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8483#

It's working great on a Genius tablet Core Duo processor. And runs quite nice on a Tecra M4 toshiba wacom tabletPC.
I made a little pic to test the build http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa63/phghevan/13-illust/krita-xp_001_net.png

No fatal bugs to report from my experience.

And thanks boud for your patience in explaining me how to build it

Thank You so much!!!!

No problem with the installation, but I got this message:

"This application has failed to start because MSVCP100.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem,"

And Krita won't run, same result after re-install...

@sangerzonvolt

I make the builds and test them on another machine. Normally I make one paint before consider the build suitable for release. But I had to update a lot of windows to get krita working on the spare Xp machine as it was 2 years out of use.

What I have found online is that you need Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555 I don't remember installing this, explicitly, but I did install many updates for .NET 4 framework from windows update.

I have a new build ready for testing, I'll investigate why is asking the library on some systems

Hope it helps

It's possible to package the redist files with krita, I do that for the win7/win8 builds. However, the mechanism might have changed between XP and later versions. Check the files in the c2winstaller/res/wix_snippets directory.

It's a fairly safe bet that someone with XP will have had their system for a long time and will have installed lots of stuff already, which brings with it the msvc redistributatables, but apparently it's not 100%

My local disk(C:) is full so I use disk (D:), could you make it possible to choose the destination of the files? I use a 10 years old win xp laptop to edit pictures etc. B.t.w. I would apprentice if you could make Vector available.

There is new XP build now as well: http://heap.kogmbh.net/downloads/krita_ ... .7.9.4.msi

I don't know how to fix the WIX definition to make the install location configurable. You can however copy the entire krita install dir whereever you want if you afterwards open a command prompt and go into that directory and execute "env.bat kbuildsycoca4". Then you can remove the original install location.

I'm not sure I get your question about Vector.

Thanks to boudewijn, the new XP build (2.7.9.5) allows to select the install folder.