1*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 2*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc INSTALLATION ON THE WIN64 PLATFORM 3*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc ---------------------------------- 4*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 5*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc Caveat lector 6*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc ------------- 7*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 8*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc As of moment of this writing Win64 support is classified "initial" 9*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc for the following reasons. 10*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 11*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc - No assembler modules are engaged upon initial 0.9.8 release. 12*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc - API might change within 0.9.8 life-span, *but* in a manner which 13*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc doesn't break backward binary compatibility. Or in other words, 14*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc application programs compiled with initial 0.9.8 headers will 15*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc be expected to work with future minor release .DLL without need 16*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc to re-compile, even if future minor release features modified API. 17*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc - Above mentioned API modifications have everything to do with 18*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc elimination of a number of limitations, which are normally 19*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc considered inherent to 32-bit platforms. Which in turn is why they 20*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc are treated as limitations on 64-bit platform such as Win64:-) 21*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc The current list comprises [but not necessarily limited to]: 22*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 23*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc - null-terminated strings may not be longer than 2G-1 bytes, 24*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc longer strings are treated as zero-length; 25*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc - dynamically and *internally* allocated chunks can't be larger 26*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc than 2G-1 bytes; 27*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc - inability to encrypt/decrypt chunks of data larger than 4GB 28*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc [it's possibly to *hash* chunks of arbitrary size through]; 29*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 30*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc Neither of these is actually big deal and hardly encountered 31*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc in real-life applications. 32*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 33*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc Compiling procedure 34*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc ------------------- 35*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 36*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc You will need Perl. You can run under Cygwin or you can download 37*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl. 38*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 39*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc You will need Microsoft Platform SDK, available for download at 40*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/. As per 41*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc April 2005 Platform SDK is equipped with Win64 compilers, as well 42*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc as assemblers, but it might change in the future. 43*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 44*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc To build for Win64/x64: 45*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 46*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc > perl Configure VC-WIN64A 47*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc > ms\do_win64a 48*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc > nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak 49*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc > cd out32dll 50*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc > ..\ms\test 51*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 52*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc To build for Win64/IA64: 53*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 54*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc > perl Configure VC-WIN64I 55*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc > ms\do_win64i 56*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc > nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak 57*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc > cd out32dll 58*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc > ..\ms\test 59*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 60*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc Naturally test-suite itself has to be executed on the target platform. 61*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 62*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc Installation 63*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc ------------ 64*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 65*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc TBD, for now see INSTALL.W32. 66*ebfedea0SLionel Sambuc 67