Visual Studio Configuration / Platform choices

Question

Hi
I am trying to setup a build configuration for my visual studio 2010 professional project. The visual platform we are using is "x64".
"x64" is not present in the dropdwon list to choose platform in the task settings.

How can i set my visual studio build correctly?

Adrien Poly · Answer

Thanks. It seems to work fine with ia64

Sultan Maiyaki · Answer

Hi Adrien,

The x64 platforms are provided by two vendors; AMD64 provided by AMD and the ia64 provided by the itanium. I believe the x64 is a general name for the 64-bit platforms as explained in:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformssetup/thread/ec2c2720-2ba2-4f6b-9e2b-6ae8723e3791

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gauravseth/archive/2006/03/01/541288.aspx

You can therefore decide to choose either of the above platform in your task configuration depending on your vendor