64bit support is coming
Supporting 64bit is not very important when most of your code is in Java. But Teppefall does have around 300kb of C++ that needs to be ported. And the process is something like this.
- Install crazy big Windows SDK and Visual Studio on Windows 7.
- Realize that the Windows documentation is wrong when it comes to "vcvarsall.bat amd64".
- Dig around for a while.
- Find the correct BAT based configuration files and drag them into the application menu.
- Create custom makefiles.
- Scratch your head as Microsoft uses the suffix "32" in paths and library names everywhere.
- More mind numbingly boring rewriting of makefiles.
- Everything compiles, but Winsock related code is broken. Might be configuration. Might be worse.
- Realize that 64bit JRE writes a registry JVM value that points to a non-existent file. My fault ?
- But the code supports that, so just use TEPPEFALL_JVM variable.
- Success!
Itanium support is probably not happening. The compiler can't find "Windows.h" under the IPF configuration and that's kind of a problem unless I want to dynamically load every method. 64bit Windows 7 also seems to crash some plug-in based systems. They keep changing the security model and developers are behind all the time for some reason. Although, the same problem exists on 64bit Linux. Which is stranger since 64bit compiler support is just a GCC parameter away.
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