64 bit

[John Ralls]

On Jul 25, 2014, at 12:50 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> At Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:02:58 -0700 AC <gnucash at acarver.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 2014-07-24 13:51, Liz wrote:
>>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:34:28 -0700
>>> m shires <mshires.wcc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 1.  I had a 32 bit program.  I run a 64 bit Windows but can't find the
>>>> GnuCash 64 bit version.  Can someone explain this?
>>> 
>>> I believe the answer to this is simply that there is no free-as-in-beer
>>> Windows 64 bit compiler.
>>> 
>> Visual Studio 2013 is free.
> 
> Is it not possible to build a 64-bit version of gcc for a MS-Windows 64-bit 
> target -- eg mingw64 or a 64 bit version of Cygwin?

It might be. I don't think anyone has tried. Mingw64 would be required. Note that I also don't think that there's any good reason to, as GnuCash's data fits easily in a 32-bit address space.

Regards,
John Ralls