>>>>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:21:56 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

  Kern> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 18:14, Russell Howe wrote:
  >> Mark Bober wrote:
  >> > As an addendum to this; I've access to Win64 machines, and any version of
  >> > Visual Studio necessary.
  >> >
  >> > I'd offer some time in running a compile (I'm totally oblivious about V
  >> > Studio, however) but looking through the README.vc8 on VS 2005, it
  >> > doesn't quite look like all the support libraries are available for Win64
  >> > anyway...?
  >> 
  >> I don't think mingw supports 64 bit Windows yet, and I don't think the
  >> developers are planning to support it without extra help.
  >> 
  >> (I'm assuming the windows port of the fd uses mingw...)

  Kern> No, we use 

  Kern>   pthreads 
  Kern>   zlib
  Kern>   wxWidgets

  Kern> and VC++ 7.1

  Kern> I have no idea if it will work on a 64 bit implementation of Windows.  
It 
  Kern> might be interesting to try.  The core of Bacula code is 32/64 bit 
  Kern> independent.  
  
At least for Windows x64 (i.e. not Itanium), I can't see much benefit to
running the FD as a 64 bit program.

__Martin


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