Experimental Physics and
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<[email protected]> · Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:35:33 +0000

Thanks. Just tried building 3.14.12.1, with all the same tools and environment, and it works fine. 

Cheers,
Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 29 September 2011 16:11
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Pearson, Matthew (DLSLtd,RAL,DIA)
> Subject: Re: building 64-bit base on windows
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> On 2011-09-29 [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > I'm attempting to build a 64-bit version of base 3.14.11 on Windows
> Server
> >  2008. From reading tech-talk, I've not come across this specific
> problem I
> >  have. In the 3.14.12 release notes I saw that windows-x64 support
> was
> >  added for that release, but there are x64 config files in the
> 3.14.11
> >  release. Is it the case that the 3.14.11 support was incomplete and
> that I
> >  need to move to 3.14.12?
> 
> I believe so.  That kind of thing (adding the files to the build system
> but
> not saying anything in the release notes) suggests to me that someone
> might
> have donated them or Janet created them herself but she didn't get them
> to the
> stage where they were fully working.  You would have to look at what
> windows-
> x64 files changed or were added to the configure/os directory in
> 3.14.12 to
> work out what was missing from 3.14.11, but it should be a lot simpler
> to just
> upgrade.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> - Andrew
> --
> Optimization is the process of taking something that works and
> replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.
> -- Roger Needham

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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