[Scons-users] How to handle MSVC when on 64 bit and TARGET_ARCH isn't specified

[Strand, Kyle J]

I agree, though I still think that if a 64-bit compiler isn't found, SCons SHOULD look for a 32-bit compiler, as we discussed last summer: http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/scons-dev/2012-June/000042.html
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Kyle Strand, Software Intern
Beckman Coulter, Inc., Life Sciences Division
4862 Innovation Drive, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80525
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From: scons-users-bounces at scons.org [scons-users-bounces at scons.org] on behalf of Kenny, Jason L [jason.l.kenny at intel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 8:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [Scons-users] How to handle MSVC when on 64 bit and        TARGET_ARCH     isn't specified

My take is that if the host system is 64-bit, the target should default to that.
Ie the target is equal to host, unless the user says otherwise. The whole point of setting target is to tell SCons to do a cross build of some sort.

Jason

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From: scons-users-bounces at scons.org [mailto:scons-users-bounces at scons.org] On Behalf Of William Deegan
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 7:01 PM
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Subject: [Scons-users] How to handle MSVC when on 64 bit and TARGET_ARCH isn't specified

Greetings,

I'm working on a handful of MSVC bugs today.
One thing I'm not certain how to handle.

I"m on a 64 bit win 7 install.
I've installs MSVC2012 express.
This installs both 32 and 64 bit compilers.
The 64 bit is accessible via the x64 cross tools command prompt, which runs the initialization script with x86_amd64 as the target arch.

If the user hasn't specified TARGET_ARCH and has this toolset installed, should I try x86_amd64 before trying x86?


-Bill
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