process.platform returns 'win32' on 64bit system

[Murray Hopkins]

Hi.

I am using the 0.12.0-alpha3 nightly release. On my 64bit Win7 machine process.platform = 'win32' and arch = 'x64'.

Shouldn't process.platform='win64' on a 64bit OS ?

Thanks,

Murray

[Anatoly Pashin]

No, it's win32 for all Windowses and 32/64 bits are in arch attr.

http://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_process_platform

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[Murray Hopkins]

Cool. Thanks. Got it. I was looking at the os api rather than the process api. Thank you.

I also noticed that if I build using the 32bit nw.js and run it on a 64bit machine, the arch = 'ia32'. It seems to relate to the version of nw.js rather than the os itself:

ie:

nwk: 0.12.0-alpha3

64bit nw.js running on 64 bit pc: type=Windows_NT, release=6.1.7601, platform=win32, arch=x64

32bit nw.js running on same pc: type=Windows_NT, release=6.1.7601, platform=win32, arch=ia32

For my auto updater I wanted to detect whether the app should download the 32bit or 64bit update. Given that a user might want to run the 32bit version on their 64bit machine for some reason, it seems logical to use arch to determine which version to auto update from. So, the fact that the arch seems to reflect the version of nw.js rather than the OS itself is a good thing in this case. 

However, what if I did want to work out what the OS actually was (32 || 64)? Am I missing something?

Thanks again,

Murray