On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 11:36 AM Miller Puckette via Pd-dev pd-dev@lists.iem.at wrote:
This will sound precious, but I have a policy of pushing back against the forced-upgrade pratcices of Microsoft and Apple. I suspect many people outside of Europe/North America are using very old machines.
At any rate, I now plan to put out a 64-bit test version compiled with IPV6 support (-DWINVER=0x0600 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0600 as Iohannes suggests), and later go back and provide XP versions in 64 and 32 bits.
Is there any way for a user to know if their version of Pd is 32 or 64 bit while it's running? Attempting to load externals of the wrong type just gives those vague 'unable to load' errors. If the 'About PD' window would say which address size it uses that could help. (I use different versions on a few different machines and I can't remember which is which) Help->About Pd gives: "Pd version 0.50.0", maybe it could say "Pd version 0.50.0 (64-bit addressing)".
Martin