Windows Xp 32-bit

[Mette Florida]

It appears that NBU 8.0 support for older Windows 2008 32-bit is still very much supported - are there plans to remove 32 bit client support in 8.1 or later? Can anyone tell me if NBU 8.0 still works on Server 2003 32 bit and 64-bit editions (I know its not in the compat. chart - just want to see if this has been tested).

Or, for a quicker method, you can simply check the PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE environment variable. 64-bit systems will say AMD64 and 32-bit systems should say "x86". To check this you can simply echo it out:

I want to build both 32- and 64-bit binaries of an application on Windows 7-64. I have installed the stable-i686 and stable-x86_64 toolchains and have built the application as 64-bit with no problems. But the 32-bit one ends up with some 64-bit code and won't run.

The depends program reports a problem with the 32-bit exe: "Error: Modules with different CPU types were found." Which sounds to me like I have some 64-bit artifacts even though I build the 32- and 64-bit versions in different target dirs.

I'm not aware that I have any C dependencies: the app is pure rust + some access to DLLs (for which I have a cfg to choose 32- or 64 bits). But I use lots of crates so maybe one of those is 64 bit only. I'll try again with a small example app.

So for the larger app I'm working on I think you're right that I have a crate dependency that's 64-bit only. But even if I found out which one (or ones) it is, knowing that won't give me a 32-bit build.

Knowing which dependency it is could help you file a bug and get it fixed. Sys crates usually also have a way to force them to build a static library from source instead of searching the system for it.

Unfortunately, I've now removed all the 32-bit support. It was only a "nice to have" for me and had the disadvantage of doubling the number of packages and tests. I know that people use virtual machines, but I don't really know why people still use 32 bits (although I do have two ancient laptops that are 32 bits, so maybe other people hang on to old machines too).

I have configured a specific task sequence to install 32-bit OS and have also specified the x86 boot image for that particular TS but my issue is when the machine reaches out to the PXE server it loading straight the x64 boot image.

Any advise on setup on the client machine and how to get the machine to boot the x86 boot image would be grateful. The machines in question are fairly recent Lenovo laptops. I have asked the client to check their Iphelper options and/or DHCP options to see if a 32-bit boot image is defined....

You'll need to confirm that NO other task sequences are deployed to that machine that use 64 bit boot image.

I'd recommend making sure you have the machine in CM, in a collection that only has 1 TS deployed to it, that uses the 32-bit boot image.

In a nutshell: for PXE boots, ConfigMgr will always try to use a boot image that matches the PXE client architecture. However, if you then select a task sequence that has a different boot image associated to it, that boot image should then get downloaded, and the computer should reboot into that boot image before it starts the task sequence. So the boot image that's used for the PXE boot doesn't really matter: if it happens to be the one that's associated with the task sequence you're going to run, that task sequence can start immediately; but if the task sequence requires a different boot image, that one will be downloaded and used after the initial PXE boot.

My understanding has always been that 64-bit Windows will create and use GPT disks just fine, but will not boot from them without a UEFI BIOS. Also my understanding WAS that 32-bit Windows could not use GPT at all and so is always restricted to 2.2TB disks, which was another reason to move to 64-bit on top of the 4GB memory limit.

But I have now read that this isn't correct: 32-bit Windows will create and use GPT disks just as 64-bit does. The only resriction is that you can't boot 32-bit Windows even if you DO have a UEFI BIOS? I don't think much of the literature has explained this well.

The system isolates 32-bit applications from 64-bit applications, which includes preventing file and registry collisions. Console, GUI, and service applications are supported. The system provides interoperability across the 32/64 boundary for scenarios such as cut and paste and COM. However, 32-bit processes cannot load 64-bit DLLs for execution, and 64-bit processes cannot load 32-bit DLLs for execution. This restriction does not apply to DLLs loaded as data files or image resource files; for more information, see LoadLibraryEx.

A 32-bit application can detect whether it is running under WOW64 by calling the IsWow64Process function (use IsWow64Process2 if targeting Windows 10). The application can obtain additional information about the processor by using the GetNativeSystemInfo function.

Note that 64-bit Windows does not support running 16-bit Windows-based applications. The primary reason is that handles have 32 significant bits on 64-bit Windows. Therefore, handles cannot be truncated and passed to 16-bit applications without loss of data. Attempts to launch 16-bit applications fail with the following error: ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT.

In response to my previous off-topic question, here, I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a VM in Windows as I need to do some things with it. How do I configure wine properly to install a 32-bit program on 64-bit Ubuntu without configuration issues?

There has not been a 32-bit version of SketchUp for many years. The only versions supplied officially are the last three versions which are all 64-bit and Pro. Your profile says you are using SketchUp 2022 Pro. Is that correct?

32-bit versions of SketchUp 2016 and 2015 can be downloaded at
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I am not sure but I think that at that time the downloads were not yet separate but Pro converts to Make after the trial period. Might be wrong about that.

Here are unofficial builds of NumPy 1.22 and SciPy 1.8.1 for the 32-bit x86 build of Python 3.11. Note that Christoph Gohlke ceased releasing these unofficial wheels as of June 2022. Apparently Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics withdrew the funding that supported the project, but at least it still hosts the archive.

What about those of us that depend on whatever our company issues tu us? I have a 32 bit system and my company just went to ringcentral companywide. Please reconsider as I would think that I am not alone in the 32-bit world out here.

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Note: configure now enables DCO build by default on FreeBSD and Linux. On Linux this brings in a new default dependency for libnl-genl (for Linux distributions that are too old to have a suitable version of the library, use "configure --disable-dco")

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