Getting Started with EM64T

ronald_g_guenther · ‎03-02-2005

Greetings,

I wish to evaluate using the 64 bit architecture now that INTEL has innovated with the PENTIUM 4/600 series marchitecture. I have more questions than answers, but would like to find documentation that I could read and answer such things as:

Is my IVF 8 license adequate?

Can the compilers (32bit and 64bit) coexist in an IDE?

What MS SDK is it that I need?

etc, etc, etc.... usw, usw, usw...

Is Steve lurking? Can he provide me with enlightenment? Anyone else?

TIA

Steven_L_Intel1 · ‎03-02-2005

Lurk, lurk...

If your Intel Visual Fortran license is current and you are registered, you can download, install and use the EM64T compiler.

The EM64T compiler is not supported in the IDE at this time, and in fact VC.NET does not currently install on x64 Windows (or didn't last I checked.) You can do cross-compiles on IA-32 from the command line.

Ah, the SDK. This is an issue that has been driving us nuts. Currently, the ONLY version of the Platform SDK we support is Build 1289. Not earlier and not later, as Microsoft made incompatible changes. We will have to revise the compiler to accomodate the PSDK changes as they move towards release of the x64 Windows. As far as I know, you must be an MSDN subscriber to have access to this PSDK.

For further reading, download the release notes for w_fce_pc_8.1.016 from Intel Premier Support File Downloads. This gives all the gory details about prerequisites.

TimP · ‎03-03-2005

Even after getting the SDK 1289, and several repair cycles on both the SDK and ifort installation, I still had to uncomment the linker path and additional library lines in ifort.cfg before it began to work. Our colleagues are working on it.