Target windows XP from Mac using Netbeans and Docker

I had tried building C/C++ applications for Windows XP using my Mac and mingw-w64 installed using Home-brew but it just didnt work out. This mostly resulted in the following when trying to run the executable on Windows XP;

What I finally discovered and use is, setting up a Docker image with the appropriate XP-compatible toolchain, ie. a MinGW that targets MSVCRT, not UCRT.

Common Network Masks

255.255.255.255 /32 (/31)

255.255.255.0 /24

255.255.254.0 /23

255.255.252.0 /22 

255.255.240.0 /20

C/C++ linking example using modified cdb file.

wget

To get wget to prompt for a password do;

wget --user=someuser --ask-password somedomain/somedir/