Re: 64-bit Windows architecture support in EPICS

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Mark,

On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:27:57 Mark Rivers wrote:
>
> I am starting to really need support for 64-bit Windows on EPICS.  Many of
> our new desktop machines are running Windows 7 64-bit, and I want to run
> both EPICS extensions (e.g. medm) and IOCs (e.g. Prosilica cameras) on
> these machines.  Has anyone developed the required files in
> base/configure/os for 64-bit Windows support?  I don't think Cygwin yet has
> 64-bit support, but the Microsoft compiler does of course.  I've built
> 64-bit non-EPICS applications on Windows already using the Microsoft
> compiler.

The 3.14 branch does currently contain support for a host architecture 
"windows-x64" which Janet added in February 2009 and modified in October 
(after then R3.14.11 release).  Have you tried this yet?

- Andrew
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