[Insight-developers] 64-bit Windows support

[David Cole]

Progress report:

down to 349 failing tests... (down from 619 on last Experimental)
http://www.cdash.org/CDash/buildSummary.php?buildid=777878


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:40 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> I forgot to mention:
> Although it compiles and links with these changes, 619 of 1813 tests
> fail, and there are 94 build warnings, as shown by this Experimental
> submission:
>
> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/buildSummary.php?buildid=775600
>
> So I've still got a ways to go.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:36 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Hey everybody,
>>
>> I just pushed a series of patches to gerrit as the initial step in
>> getting to a 64-bit Windows build that works.
>>
>> It is not my intent to merge all of these patches as is in gerrit, and
>> so I am not specifically asking for review on all of them yet.
>>
>> What I am doing is making my "work in progress" available in gerrit so
>> that interested parties can pull from there if they want to compile
>> their own Win64 build, even before the work is "done" all the way. To
>> get a build that will compile all the way using the 64-bit Microsoft
>> compiler, pull this gerrit change:
>> http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,381
>>
>> I'll keep posting things here, in the related bug (
>> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=6196 ), and as gerrit
>> patches.
>>
>> Right now, I'm reviewing "Code/Common" for uses of "long" and
>> "unsigned long"... and from there, I'll work my way through the other
>> directories.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any specific areas of concern as I trudge through this.
>>
>>
>> Stay tuned,
>> David C.
>>
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