[sldev] 64bit of sl?

[Robin Cornelius]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Stickman <stickman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if this mythical Viewer 2.0 will include 64 bit support.

> While I like the idea of moving forward to an architecture which
> should already have saturated the world, I don't know what's involved
> with 64-bit support. But doubling the number of clients the devs have
> to maintain sounds like it could cause issues. I dunno.
>

The only real issue currently is developer time inside LL. Many of us
already do 64 bit linux builds and the viewer code itself builds no
problem and runs just fine on 64bit.

What needs doing is all the supporting libraries all need building for
64bit, this process was started some time ago and some of the libs (at
least for linux anyway) are built for 64bit. Its just the process was
never finished. This is more a time consuming process rather than a
technical challenge.

Robin