[Developers] ADMB and MinGW-64

[Arni Magnusson]

Hi Chris,

I don't have access to a 64-bit Windows machine, so I have very little 
experience with this. I visited a friend to build ADMB-IDE 64 at some 
point.

However, when I use http://admb-project.org/tools/gcc/gcc463-win3264.zip 
and compile

   g++ -m64 hello.cpp

I get an executable that is 64 bits and won't run on my machine (not a 
valid Win32 application).

Therefore, you should definitely be able to use the same gcc463-win3264 to 
build a 64-bit ADMB for Windows. Perhaps some changes would be required in 
the makefiles to do this. Another way is to use Dave's approach and 
cross-compile win64 binaries from Linux instead.

ADMB should definitely be available as Win64 binaries. The models run 
considerably faster than Win32, but slower than Linux.

Arni



On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Grandin, Chris wrote:

> Arni - does your method compile as 64-bit? The way I do it I could only 
> get 32-bit compilation even though it's a 64-bit machine.
>
> Chris
>