Dear Balaji,
Thanks a lot for your question.
I’m the maintainer of the “standard” OpenACS Windows (32) port.
http://www.spazioit.com/pages_en/sol_inf_en/win32-openacs_en/
First of all let me state that the Win32-OpenACS 1.19 installation procedure as
well as all its executables have been tested and do work on Windows XP, Vista,
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (both the 32 bit and the 64 bit
versions). Of course in the case of Windows 64 architectures they run on WOW
(Windows On Windows - the Windows 32 emulator running on top of Windows 64). In
several instances, even if the emulation middleware runs in between,
Win32-OpenACS runs faster on Windows 64 systems than on Windows 32 systems.
Now some few considerations about the future.
Somehow all server hardware is shifting from 32 bit to 64 bit architecture...
but the software, especially the applications are not following this path at
the same pace.
For example I haven't yet found a version PostgreSQL for Windows 64 (if you do
know something about it please let me know).
As you know Win32-OpenACS consists of plenty of different pieces of software. I
have made sure that these pieces compile and work correctly on Windows 32. This
requires knowing exactly what the compiler and the linker do, changing their
parameters as necessary and so on... Making sure that all these pieces of
software compile and work correctly on Windows 64 it's not a minor, trivial
task.
I don't even know if all the involved pieces of code have been
developed/written taking into account the (Windows) 64 bit architecture.
I was personally thinking about starting to work on a native port to Windows 64
this, towards the second quarter. But given the current economic situation I’m
not going to undertake this effort unless explicitly requested (and funded). In
any case PostgreSQL may still keep being a Windows 32 application.
Before I finish let me repeat that the good point of all this blah/blah is that
now, today, Win32-OpenACS installs and runs properly also on Windows 64 systems.
Hope it helps,
Maurizio
From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:aolser...@listserv.aol.com] On Behalf Of
balaji pattabhiraman
Sent: 30 June 2010 7:17 PM
To: AOLSERVER@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: [AOLSERVER] AOL Server support on Windows 64 bit.
Hi All,
Is any of the AOL server versions certified to work on 64 bit Windows.?. Was
this ever compiled and tested on 64 bit and confirmed the runtime to be
working. If so is there any release notes/documentation specifyiong the list of
files and changes pertaining to this in AOL source code?. This is critical for
us. Any help is appreciated
-Balaji
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