Let me check, I think they relented on that for the 2012 edition.
Looks like wikipedia[1] thinks they did
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop
Allows development of conventional Windows desktop applications in C#, VB.NET
and C++, targeting Windows client technologies such as Windows Presentation
Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms, and the Win32 API. Unlike previous Express
editions, it also has in-built support for compiling 64-bit binaries though the
IDE.[27].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express
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Jody Garnett
On Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 11:57 PM, Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > Right. So, the story was that i wasn't able to figure out how to compile
> > > for windows 64 bit. I didn't want to buy vistual studio professional and
> > > i couldn't for the life of me get mingw-64 to work so i more or less gave
> > > up.
> > Microsoft relented on the visual studio thing in an effort to have more
> > Windows 8 developers:
> > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/visual-studio-2012-free-desktop-development-tool-out-today-first-update-outlined/
> >
> Right, afaik there has been an express version of VS available but my latest
> round of research let me to believe that the express version didn't include
> the 64 bit compiler.
> > > Adding to that I couldn't find a 64 bit windows build of spatialite.
> > > Although I think my research in this area is out of date... doing a quick
> > > search looks like 64 bit builds for windows are now available.
> > >
> > > That said, i was able to use the 32 bit libs on a 64 bit windows 7
> > > machine and it worked ok. I can't remember if i had to run the jvm in 32
> > > bit mode... (-d32 flag). If so we should update that doc.
> > >
> > > Hope that helps. I am eager to have someone verify this work :)
> > I think Andrea is trying to run in -d64 mode (in order to work with more
> > data).
> >
>
>
> RIght, which would certainly be the default for a 64 bit jvm on a 64 bit os.
> What i can't remember is if i had to enable the -d32 switch to make this
> work. If Andrea could confirm it still doesn't doesn't work when adding the
> flag then something else is up.
> >
> > Jody
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Justin Deoliveira
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
>
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