Jan, I understand your concern about V2008. I've had to install the msvcrt redistributable for some of my projects built under VS2005/8.
As for 32/64 compatiblity, the ppm library has separate versions for 64 and 32 bit perl already, I believe. If that is the case, conditional complilation (#ifdef __AMD64) should be able to handle the 64 and 32 bit versions. The current code for 32 bit will be able to remain. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Jan Dubois [mailto:j...@activestate.com] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 5:11 PM To: 'Cosimo Streppone'; Bauer, Steven Cc: libwin32@perl.org Subject: RE: Win32::API port to 64 bits On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Cosimo Streppone wrote: > In data 13 febbraio 2009 alle ore 22:00:01, Bauer, Steven > <steven.ba...@amd.com> ha scritto: > > with either VS2008 or VS2005 or just the SDK and get it available on > > the public net. Which do you prefer? > > Don't know. I guess we should aim for VS2008, since it's the most > recent version anyway. Personally I would like it if Win32::API could be compiled with the Windows 2003 SP1 SDK compiler because that way it would not have additional dependencies on other runtime libraries when compiled this way (which makes it easier to bundle the module with PAR/PerlApp/Perl2Exe). I suspect though that if it compiles with 2008 that it will also compile with 2005. I haven't looked into it though; maybe the support for intrinsics in 2008 is much improved compared to 2005. It is also not clear to me how the changes for 64-bit will affect the 32-bit version. Again, I would prefer that the 32-bit code remains compatible with VC6 so it can link against MSVCRT.dll. This would argue against using intrinsics for the 32-bit code branch, even if you used them for the 64-bit code. In the end the people writing the code will have to make the decision, but from my point of view the best solution would be to separate out the assembly code into separate source files and compile them using MASM/ML64 instead of relying on the compiler specific intrinsic functions. Cheers, -Jan
