RFR: JDK-8285730: unify _WIN32_WINNT settings

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:57:41 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Currently we set _WIN32_WINNT at various places in the codebase; this is used to target a minimum Windows version we want to support. See also for more detailled information :
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog/using-the-windows-headers?redirectedfrom=MSDN#setting-winver-or-_win32_winnt
> Macros for Conditional Declarations
> "Certain functions that depend on a particular version of Windows are declared using conditional code. This enables you to use the compiler to detect whether your application uses functions that are not supported on its target version(s) of Windows."
> 
> However currently we have quite a lot of differing settings of _WIN32_WINNT in the codebase ; setting _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0601 (Windows 7) where possible would make sense because we have this setting already at   java_props_md.c  (so targeting older Windows versions at other places is most likely not useful).

There is obviously a lot of history here and different parts of the codebase had hit different minimum OS version requirements at different times. While at one time we would have had to cater for building on systems with and without a given API those days are long gone for the code being touched here (AFAICS). As Erik states we should be able to set a minimum _WIN32_WINNT_ value needed to build all the codebase and simply have that checked and set at configure time. The code itself would not need to define _WIN32_WINNT.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8428