Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

A developer successfully built an Itanium cross-compiler on macOS to enable running Windows XP on a QEMU Itanium emulator, following the discovery of a working Itanium emulation fork. The project involved compiling binutils and GCC 15 for the ia64 architecture, with most tools building without major issues despite the Itanium being a largely obsolete platform kept alive by a small community of enthusiasts.