> On 10/08/2016, at 3:30 PM, Rousselot, Richard A > <richard.a.rousse...@centurylink.com> wrote: > > As I said, I am not a software engineer. I could spend a few hours figuring > this out and be fine but it will be painful for me. > > I see no downsides in a 64-bit CLI. The last 32-bit Intel CPU was the PIII > in 2004, no supported Windows OS requires 32-bit CPUs, the file size may be > marginally bigger but who cares on a PC. The 64-bit version will, I assume, > happily work on DBs created in the 32-bit version. And for those that need > 32-bit for their applications and drivers still have access to the 32-bit > DLL. What am I missing? Are windows command line tools 32-bit only?
A 32-bit installation of Windows cannot run 64-bit executables (ignoring VM solutions). Because of the large installed base of 32-bit Windows, the Windows command line tools for SQLite needs to be available as 32-bit versions. If 64-bit versions were provided, they would need to be in addition to the 32-bit versions. There are an awful lot of 32-bit installations of Windows. This includes a lot of 32-bit installations of Windows on 64-bit processors, which exist for many reasons including defaults offered by the manufacturer, lack of 64-bit drivers, corporate policy decisions, reduced memory footprint in limited machines, or the user requiring 32-bit Windows in order to be able to run legacy 16-bit software (again, ignoring VM solutions). _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
