On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Bertrand Lorentz < bertrand.lore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Matthew Trumbell > <matt...@thirdstonepartners.com> wrote: > > Any chance that will be a 64 bit installer? > > The 64 bit Windows native binaries for GTK+ 3.x are currently marked > as experimental: > http://www.gtk.org/download/win64.php > > So the Gtk# installer I'm working on will be 32 bit. What would be the > benefit of a 64 bit Gtk# ? > > -- > Bertrand > > Basically, it boils down to the fact that a .Net executable runs as a certain bitness and can only load dlls of the same bitness. So with a 32bit Gtk#, it forces the UI into 32bit mode and that UI can only load 32bit dlls. In my case, I use some vendor libraries that release both 64bit and 32bit dlls, with associated native code with the same bitness. In most cases the 32bit dlls work just fine. But in others, the vendor library is generating or accessing large amounts of data where 64bit would be advantageous or even required. There are certainly other solutions to my problem (for instance splitting the data handling pieces into a separate process which then communicates with our UI), but a 64bit version of GTK# would solve it and offer more flexibility for use of the framework generally speaking. This is a problem I've been planning on digging into for some time (re-compiling the Windows version of GTK# for 64 bit), but I keep putting off as more pressing matters pop up. I saw your email and got a bit excited. :) Thanks for the response. Matthew
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