Back to General and Gameplay Programming

Visual C++ 2008 Express and 64-bit Windows

General and Gameplay Programming Programming

Started by Wibbs September 09, 2009 06:12 AM

2 comments, last by Windryder 14 years, 7 months ago

Wibbs

129

Author

September 09, 2009 06:12 AM

Hi, I am considering building a 64-bit computer that will run Windows 7, but I have a couple of questions... - Will it run Visual C++ 2008 Express? - If it does, will it allow me to compile for 32-bit? Thanks in advance for your assistance, Wibbs

Codeka

1,239

September 09, 2009 06:14 AM

Yes & yes.

War Worlds • Journal

Tachikoma

575

September 09, 2009 07:23 AM

And if you download the Windows SDK, and prepare to do some tweaking with the VC2008 registry settings, you can also build x64 projects.

Latest project: Sideways Racing on the iPad

Windryder

271

September 09, 2009 08:30 AM

I am currently running Visual Studio 2008 Professional under Windows 7 x64 with no issues. I have also run 2005 Pro and 2008 Express under Windows Vista x64. No problems there either.

EDIT: And as Codeka mentioned, you can compile Win32 applications with it. In fact, it produces 32-bit code by default. I haven't tried writing 64-bit applications as of yet.

zealous coding - c++ programming pitfalls