Development tools supporting x64

Recently, I plan to upgrade several products to the x64 platform (Windows XP x64 and Windows Server 2003x64) and investigate how many development tools support x64.

• Visual c ++
  
  Visual Studio 2005 will be released in the summer.

Currently, Visual C ++ 6.0 and Visual Studio. NET 2003 support x64, but some additional settings are required. For more information about the configuration, see creating ing Microsoft Visual Studio projects to support the amd64 architecture. First, download the latest version of Platform SDK for window Server 2003. If you are an msdn user, you 'd better download psdk for win2k3 SP1, including all the library files required by VC ++ 6. IfProgramIs based on MFC/ATL, and need to use vs2k3 to compile, You need to submit an application to Microsoft, the application method see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx? SCID = kb, en-US, 875446. Remember to provide an FTP address with at least 75 MB space. Microsoft will upload the relevant files to your FTP.

The 64-bit debugging tool can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/install64bit.mspx.

• Intel C ++
  
  The latest version includes compilers that support emt64.
  
• Delphi

Delphi currently focuses on 64-bit. NET 2.0 to support x64, which was tested more than a year ago. It is estimated that Delphi 10 will be officially supported this year. However, Borland has not released a plan for native code, which is worse. Because the teechart ActiveX I currently use is written in Delphi, and 32-bit ActiveX cannot be called in 64-bit programs. Therefore, the 64-bit delphi version does not affect some of my programs, even if these programs are not compiled using Delphi.