Re: OpenEXR for amd64 platform

Florian Kainz <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:55:54 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.openexr.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Veerendra,

OpenEXR will not compile with Visual studio 5 on any platform;
you'll need Visual Studio 7 or 8.  OpenEXR makes extensive use
of templates; template support in Visual C++ and earlier is
insufficient.

Florian

veerendra singh wrote:
> Hi guys, I tried to find information about how to build OpenEXR for 
> amd64-bit platform when I could not find any precompiled libs for the 
> same. But unfortunately, I did not come across any correspondence 
> regarding the same. Then, I downloaded the source for OpenEXR and 
> Ilmbase and tried to build it with Visual studio 5, but I found that 
> even they do not have a inbuilt x64 bit configuration. Furthermore, when 
> I tried to create a x64 config, I got loads of errors. Is there 
> something that I missed here or is it something people normally dont do?
> 
> Thanks,
> Veerendra
> 
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