64-bit windows version?

[skaller]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 07:34 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello skaller,
> 
> Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 8:15:19 PM, you wrote:
> >> > are you plan to implement 64-bit windows GHC version?
> 
> > Why do you need mingw? What's wrong with MSVC++?
> 
> really! Simon, how about unregisterised build?
> 
> skaller, is *free* 64-bit msvc (or any other windows c++ compiler) available?

Visual Studio Express is a Visual Studio 2005 IDE system for XP 
with some features disabled, the disabled features include 
interactive debugging, help, online news/blog stuff, etc: 
advanced IDE features.

AFAIK the compilers are intact and can be used on the command line
as well as from the IDE. I think you do need to download 
the platform SDK separately though. AFAIK on x86_64 platform,
VS is a 32 bit program, as are the compilers, but they can
generate 64 bit code (the 32 and 64 bit compilers are separate
executables and run in distinct environments .. )

One thing to watch though: embedded assembler is gone in new
MSVC++ compilers (due to multi-arch support I guess).
However assembler works in 64 bit, Ocaml 64 bit for Windows uses it.

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