Instaling IDE on Win XP

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hi,
I have encountered problems during instaling IDE on my old lab PC with win XP, during instalation it says that there is a problém with x86 (mabey 84, not sure now, sorry) not being compatible with win xp and i can instal it anyway or not instal it, both versions lead to the same problém. When i try to upload sketch to adruino uno it says this:

fork/exec C:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avr-g++.exe: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
Error compiling for board Arduino/Genuino Uno.

I did instal drivers for uno manuály as discribed here on forum many times but nothing changes.

Does anyboady know what might be the problém and how to fix it?

I was thinking about getting older version of IDE (i have 1.8.2) but i couldn't find any.

Thank you in advance for any suggestion.

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1.8.2 will run on XP but does throw a few issues (at least here)

There are more versions and 1.6.5 R5 works quite well with XP.

Here are the previous releases.

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Try installing a older version of the IDE.

1.8.2 works on XP but has a few problems as mentioned
earlier by ballscrewbob.

I am using 1.6.8 on my XP and it works perfectly.

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1.6.x and 1.8.x IDE versions other than 1.8.2 actually have a serious bug when used on XP but it only happens intermittently so you may or may not encounter it. For this reason I'd recommend trying to get 1.8.2 working and only fall back to an old version if you have no other choice. Please do this:

  • File > Preferences > Show verbose output during > compilation (check) > OK
  • Sketch > Compile/Verify
  • When you encounter an error you'll see a button on the right side of the orange bar "Copy error messages". Click that button. Paste the error in a message here using code tags.