I think you'll want i586-windows-pc-msvc for older Windows support. Could you remove the GUI entry as well?

Unfortunately, old versions of windows-rs don't support the i586 target. So we either need to update all the dependencies that use an old version of windows-rs, or... just use the i686 target. I don't think that matters too much anyways - I won't be running this on an actual Pentium 1, the oldest CPU I have in my possession is a core 2 duo I believe, which is i686-compliant :^).

This is the main issue with using i686- if you want to run on older Windows: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/26/Windows-7.html

Curious what deps were pulling in older windows-rs

enable-ansi-support pulls windows-sys 0.42.0, which is the oldest offender. There are currently four versions of windows-sys in objdiff workspace: https://github.com/encounter/objdiff/blob/main/Cargo.lock#L5067-L5107

FWIW, using i586-pc-windows-msvc wouldn't help here, it also doesn't support win10- either. For win7+ support, we could use the i686-win7-windows-msvc target (which I happen to be the main maintainer of :^) ). But that's annoying because those targets are tier 3, and as such not available in rustup.

Maybe I should petition to make them tier 2 targets...

I'm also not sure that enable-ansi-support is that big a deal anyways, it only affects Windows 10+ and only in old-school Command Prompt, PowerShell and the new Terminal are unaffected because they properly handle ANSI codes afaik. I got rid of it in Orthrus since I didn't see much use in keeping it around as a dependency.