Fri Dec 10 09:51:47 2010: Request 63797 was acted upon. Transaction: Ticket created by https://launchpad.net/~michiel-beijen Queue: Win32 Subject: Win32 detected if running 32-bit perl on 64-bit windows Broken in: 0.40 Severity: (no value) Owner: Nobody Requestors: m...@otyrs.org Status: new Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63797 >
If you run a 32-bit perl on a 64-bit platform, either calling GetOSVersion() in scalar context or the new GetOSDisplayName() call (nice) return 32-bit. For instance for a 2008R2 server (which is 64-bit only) GetOSDisplayName() will return "Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (32-bit)" See the following info from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724833%28VS.85%29.aspx "To determine whether a Win32-based application is running on WOW64, call the IsWow64Process function. To determine whether the system is running a 64-bit version of Windows, call the GetNativeSystemInfo function."
