[AOLSERVER] AOL Server support on Windows 64 bit.

[balaji pattabhiraman]

Hi All,

Is any of the AOL server versions certified to work on 64 bit  Windows.?. Was this ever compiled and tested on 64 bit and confirmed the runtime to be working. If so is there any release notes/documentation specifyiong the list of files and changes pertaining to this in AOL source code?. This is critical for us. Any help is appreciated

-Balaji

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[Maurizio Martignano]

Dear Balaji,

                Thanks a lot for your question.

I’m the maintainer of the “standard” OpenACS Windows (32) port.

http://www.spazioit.com/pages_en/sol_inf_en/win32-openacs_en/

First of all let me state that the Win32-OpenACS 1.19 installation procedure as well as all its executables have been tested and do work on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (both the 32 bit and the 64 bit versions). Of course in the case of Windows 64 architectures they run on WOW (Windows On Windows - the Windows 32 emulator running on top of Windows 64). In several instances, even if the emulation middleware runs in between, Win32-OpenACS runs faster on Windows 64 systems than on Windows 32 systems.

Now some few considerations about the future.

Somehow all server hardware is shifting from 32 bit to 64 bit architecture... but the software, especially the applications are not following this path at the same pace.

For example I haven't yet found a version PostgreSQL for Windows 64 (if you do know something about it please let me know).

As you know Win32-OpenACS consists of plenty of different pieces of software. I have made sure that these pieces compile and work correctly on Windows 32. This requires knowing exactly what the compiler and the linker do, changing their parameters as necessary and so on... Making sure that all these pieces of software compile and work correctly on Windows 64 it's not a minor, trivial task.
I don't even know if all the involved pieces of code have been developed/written taking into account the (Windows) 64 bit architecture.

I was personally thinking about starting to work on a native port to Windows 64 this, towards the second quarter. But given the current economic situation I’m not going to undertake this effort unless explicitly requested (and funded). In any case PostgreSQL may still keep being a Windows 32 application.

Before I finish let me repeat that the good point of all this blah/blah is that now, today, Win32-OpenACS installs and runs properly also on Windows 64 systems.

Hope it helps,
Maurizio

[balaji pattabhiraman]

Thanks for you reply. Im interested just in the AOL part (4.5.1), and I want that compiled/working on Windows 64 bit as such as a 64 bit binaries (as 64 bit app). Running 32 bit binaries on 64 bit  (WOW) is what we currently do, but that is not good enough. Any idea if anyone including you have attempted such a thing on AOL?

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[Maurizio Martignano]

Dear Balaji,

                Limiting the effort to the Aolserver part may simplify the task.

As I wrote in my previous mail I was planning to give it a try in the second quarter of this year; but given the current economic situation I’m not going to do that unless requested and funded.

For the Aolserver part only the effort could be anything from 3 to 10 working days and the results are not guaranteed.

I’m not aware if anyone else has done it or is about to try…

If you are interested in my help/support please feel free to contact me.

 

Regards,