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  ChartDirector binaries for Solaris-x86 with 64 bit
Posted by Pawan on Jan-26-2011 03:32
Any Plans for "ChartDirector binaries for Solaris-x86 with 64 bit" ?

Regards,
Pawan

  Re: ChartDirector binaries for Solaris-x86 with 64 bit
Posted by Peter Kwan on Jan-26-2011 18:59
Hi Pawan,

Unluckily, current there is no plan for native 64-bit binaries for the Solaris OS.

Unlike most other OS (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD), there is no separate 32-bit/64-bit editions for Solaris. There is only one edition of Solaris which works for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Furthermore, all tools that come with Solaris (like Perl, Python, PHP, Apache, etc) have 32-bit support, or sometimes only have 32-bit support.

Also, it is very unlikely a charting script can use more than 4GB of memory. So there may not be any signficiant advantage in using 64-bit interpreters for charting scripts.

So we suggest people to use 32-bit interpreters for charting scripts.

However, if you intend to write a 64-bit C++ application, there is currently no 64-bit ChartDirector shared object that you can link to. You may need to "shell out" and run the charting part in a 32-bit charting script.

Regards
Peter Kwan