32 bitness in the Windows SP

Rod Widdowson rdw at steadingsoftware.com
Wed Sep 13 10:12:06 EDT 2017


> Actually, my recollection was that the reason this was a challenge was the path problem. Or did you rename the libraries all over?
Which I
> can't exactly argue would be a bad idea, but I hadn't done it to this point.

Naaa, windows is smart enough that you can have 32 bit and 64 bit dlls of the same name in the path and it will load the correct
one.  Which is actually pretty cool (as well as making the build of the dependencies heaps easier)

So the path just points to "Program Files" and "Program files (x86)" and the rest is magical.   I've not explicitly tested this,
except of course by running both 32 and 64 bit shib components in the same path.

> If we can formally support mixing them, that's better, but I think the real work on that is the library names.

I'll make a case to dive into the precise details...

R



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