[Simh] Running and compiling SIMH under 64-bit Windows 7

[Armistead, Jason]

Jason

I'm running VC 2008 Express, but could probably grab the VC 2010 Express edition if that's what you're using.

I'm not entirely sure when Microsoft started being able to generate 64-bit EXEs in their toolchains, but since I started writing my reply I also did some Googling and it seems that I may need to get a fully-blown version of Visual Studio Professional 

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deeptanshuv/archive/2006/04/11/573795.aspx

but then I read posts like

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/Vsexpressvc/thread/4ce313a3-cb5f-43fc-bbb9-50233f8ed11b

which seem to indicate I may be OK.

Sigh !  Too many toolset options compared with what I was used to under OpenVMS VAX / Alpha !

Cheers
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Stevens [mailto:neozeed at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, 2 May 2011 9:14 AM
To: Armistead, Jason
Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] Running and compiling SIMH under 64-bit Windows 7

I'm pretty sure I've done it at some point....

I've done a VC 2005 project on older source here..

http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/simh%20source%20code/simh%203.7-3/simh-3.73-vc2005.zip/download

I guess I could update it, is Visual Studio 2010 ok?  I need to do a
'proper' Itanium version at any rate....

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Armistead, Jason
<Jason.Armistead at otis.com> wrote:
> Has anyone built an EXE of SIMH with networking support which will run
> properly under Windows 7 64-bit ?  Or, perhaps somehow has the current SIMH
> EXEs running under Windows 7 64-bit as-is
>
>  ?
>
> We’re beginning the inevitable corporate move from XP 32-bit to Windows 7,
> and 64-bit seems like the preferred option rather than 32-bit.
>
> Has SIMH been compiled specifically for 64-bit Windows platforms, and is
> there a Visual Studio project environment (or perhaps another alternative
> environment) that I can get from somewhere to give this a go for myself ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
>
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