Re: Postgres on 64bit Windows Server with WOW64

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Mont Rothstein <mont(dot)rothstein(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres on 64bit Windows Server with WOW64
Date: 2006-07-31 18:15:57
Message-ID: 44CE48DD.2020804@kaltenbrunner.cc
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Mont Rothstein wrote:
>> I wouldn't know that one way or the other :-)
>>
>> I was referring to Windows on Windows
>> 64<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64>
>> .
>>
>> Enables 32bit apps to run on 64bit Windows OSs, in case anyone wasn't
>> familiar with it (I wasn't until today).
>
> In theory you should be able to compile PostgreSQL to 64bit windows. We
> support 64bit everywhere else.
>
> Does mingw support 64bit?

no it does not.
To get 64bit on windows we will need to get VC fully supported for now ...

Stefan

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