Friendly remainder

[mirh]

1. Find whether this is needed (the remainder of the pull is alright) [prolly aren't, don't seem to have negative impact though]
2. Think to best solution for cdvd [wait for 1253 wondering to solve 1;2] [+THIS]
3. Figure out if the discussion here was in the end motivated by point 3) or not
4. gsdx: Remove DirectX SDK dependency PCSX2/pcsx2#1238 ==> this or this (loading order matter?) (to check: include\um\d3dcompiler.h)
5. In particular to something with incompatible LOAD_LIBRARY_SEARCH_SYSTEM32
6. This stuff about HID (hidsdi works even in W2000: if this is the case.. What's the difference with cdvd case?)
7. Resolve VersionHelpers workaround workaround ==> this or this Either I manage to transplant W8 sdk or I'm done
8. Perhaps this fixed the spu2-x issue ==> profit! Nope.

And intriguingly, there are functions in the windows 8 sdk that still supports windows 2000.
Albeit of course officially you can't use _xp toolset with the former.

ps: figure out why gsdumpgui crash after vs15 switch
pps: useful headers conditions?

[blueclouds8666]

is this project still alive?
i'm currently working in private for an xp port and i'm having quite success

if you happen to still be interested on pcsx2 for XP, would be great if we talked, send me an email at blueclouds8666@mail.com if that's the case

[mirh]

Lol. To be honest, I'm not anymore interested to the whole thing altogether, be it on XP or 10.
If you need help anyway, I can give you some slight guidance.
But it shouldn't be too hard to get even the latest version up and running, at least if you are fine already with the opengl renderer.

[blueclouds8666]

hello again, i'm unsure if you are still interested in this stuff,
but i'm proud to announce my fork of PCSX2 that brings back XP compatibility.
The latest version, v1.6.0 (5 May 2020) works perfectly fine under said system! i finally managed to get it working.
it took me hundreds of hours of code modifying but here are the results:
https://github.com/blueclouds8666/pcsx2_XP

[mirh]

I'm conflicted.
On one hand, well, a lot of effort was made.
On the other.. I already figured out what the deal with SPU2X was? I provided a fix, and it's not even a problem on VS2017. And the project looks really messy along the same line (why was submodule dropped? and did you check the headers I mentioned above?)
But last but not least, well, at least it's better than nothing. I hope you may polish and rebase that.