Scite.exe not a valid Win32 Application on Windows 2000 Pro

[chipmonger]

Just set up a new, fully patched Virtualbox VM of WIndows 2000 Pro. Installed AutoIT 3.3.6.1 and SciTE4AutoIT3 dated 7/3/11. Attempt to start Scite and get a 'c:\Program Files\AutoIt3\SciTE\SciTE.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

As far as I can tell in the release notes, both applications should still be Windows 2000 compatible. There is no antivirus running on the VM.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Chip

[chipmonger]

Sorry to answer my own question, but it looks like starting with version 2.12 SciTE is now built with Visual Studio 2010 which does not produce

executables which run on Windows 2000. If Windows 2000 support is needed, then build it with an older compiler such as Visual Studio 2008.

[Jos]

There is and older version of SciTE.exe and SciLexer.dll available for older OSes in the download directory.

Jos