RE: Problem with SWIG under 64-bit arch

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, menth0l wrote:
> 
> I wrote a small module with C++ for computing similiarity between
> strings. I compiled it on my 32-bit Windows XP machine using MinGW and
> SWIG and got a .dll file. It worked like a charm.
> 
> Now i need to make it work in Windows 2003 x86_64 envinronment. I
> downloaded 64-bit version of MinGW and reproduced exactly the same
> steps from 32-bit env, namely:
[...] 
> Note that this does not happen on my 32-bit envinronment. What could
> be the cause? If it helps: i use ActiveState perl v5.10 on both
> envinronments.

I don't know if the 64-bit version of MinGW is binary compatible with
the Microsoft compiler, so you may want to use the same Visual C++ compiler
that was used to build ActivePerl itself.  It is available as a free
download from Microsoft as part of the Windows 2003 SP1 Platform SDK:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=A55B6B43-E24F-4EA3-A93E-40C0EC4F68E5&displaylang=en

Cheers,
-Jan