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Questions tagged [win64]

all versions of the Windows operating system that run on 64-bit architecture

This tag covers all general programming issues for software running on Windows 64-bit operating systems (XP, 2003, Vista, etc.).

For programming questions about 64-bit architecture that are platform and operating system independent (in other words, for Linux, Mac, Windows, etc.), simply use the tag.

Check serverfault.com or superuser.com for general questions on the 64-bit architecture and its hardware.

See Microsoft's Programming Guide for 64-bit Windows for more information on programming for Windows 64-bit architecture.

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x64 calling convention (stack) and varargs

I've read Microsoft's documentation, but the scheme is so awkward, I thought I'd double-check to make sure I'm understanding it correctly... My understanding is the generic method by which parameters are passed is this: --- bottom of stack…
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Source for pthread for 64 bit windows

I have an open-source project that must build under Win32/Win64/Linux/MacOSX. We would like to use pthreads to support our multithreading paradigm, however as my project is open-source everything must be build from source. As such I need the…
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msvcp90.dll depends on wrong msvcr90.dll?

I have a dll project built with VS2008 (amd64). The manifest of the dll say When I load the dll into…
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Building 64bit libpython27.a using cygwin, dlltool

I'm trying to build a python extension DLL on a 64bit Win7 machine using cygwin (as cygwin only run as 32bit process, this is actually cross-compiling). I created libpython27.a myself from python27.dll using dlltool (as explained, for example,…
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G++ for 64-bit Windows

Where can I get a GCC/G++ compiler for my 64-bit Windows 7 machine?
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C/C++ returning struct by value under the hood

(This question is specific to my machine's architecture and calling conventions, Windows x86_64) I don't exactly remember where I had read this, or if I had recalled it correctly, but I had heard that, when a function should return some struct or…
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Why Delphi does not output the DCU files in the correct folder?

I have a project (C:\Test\Test.dpr) that uses a file (External.pas) belonging to library (MyLib.DPK). All files in the library are accessible via 'Search' path but I also included External.pas directly in my DPR file: program Test; uses External…
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Executing 32bit and 64bit mshta.exe (bypass default handler)

I'd like to be able to launch a page.hta in 32bit and 64bit versions of the mshta.exe. Create the file c:\page.hta

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