Re: Proposal: More portable way to support 64bit platforms

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 02:24, Dave Page<dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Stephen Frost<sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>> Dave,
>>
>> * Dave Page (dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org) wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Stephen Frost<sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>>> > Do you need access to a Win64 box?  I can provide you access to a
>>> > Win64 system, which Dave Page and Magnus already have access to, if it
>>> > would be useful..
>>>
>>> I haven't got round to installing a build env on there yet btw.
>>
>> Anything we can do to help..?  If you can tell us what you'd like
>> installed, I can probably have someone install it, provided it's not
>> horribly complicated. :)
>
> Well, if you have a spare few minutes, VC++ 2005 Express, and the
> platform SDK would be useful.

IIRC, there is no 64-bit support in VC++2005 Express. There is a
64-bit compiler in the SDK though, that can probably be made to work
with it. I think the official support for this (SDK compiler
integrated with VC++ Express) only arrived in 2008. I don't know how
much work it would be though, so it would seem it's worth a try :-)
But the integration of 64-bit is one of the reasons they claim for
buying the full version.

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