{"id":402,"date":"2011-01-21T05:26:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T12:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2011-11-02T00:45:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T07:45:16","slug":"using-wow64-to-run-quick-pdf-library-on-64-bit-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/using-wow64-to-run-quick-pdf-library-on-64-bit-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Using WoW64 To Run Quick PDF Library On 64-bit Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE: There is now a 64-bit compatible version of Quick PDF Library available as part of version 8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/quick-pdf-library-8-12-released-includes-64-bit-compatibility\/\">Read more here<\/a>. Native 64-bit support is provided for the DLL, ActiveX and Delphi editions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A native 64-bit solution is not yet available but Quick PDF Library can be successfully run on on 64-bit machines using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WoW64\">WoW64<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the relevant information on this issue for each edition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Delphi Edition<\/strong> &#8212; Delphi generates 32-bit code and so Windows will know to automatically run it through WoW64 on 64-bit machines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ActiveX Edition<\/strong> &#8212; if you&#8217;re using Visual Studio (or similar) you will need to set the platform target to x86 instead of Any CPU.<\/li>\n<li><strong>DLL Edition<\/strong> &#8212; if you&#8217;re using Visual Studio (or similar) you will need to set the platform target to x86 instead of Any CPU.<\/li>\n<li><strong>TCP Edition<\/strong> &#8212; this edition is designed to run as a service and will run successfully on 32-bit and 64-bit machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The basic steps required for configuring a project in Visual Studio to work on 64-bit machines with either the ActiveX or DLL editions are shown below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<ol>\n<li>Right-click on your project and select &#8216;Properties&#8217; from the menu<\/li>\n<li>Click on the &#8216;Build&#8217; tab<\/li>\n<li>Under &#8216;General&#8217; change the &#8216;Platform target&#8217; to x86<\/li>\n<li>Save<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the future we will release a native 64-bit version of Quick PDF Library. The library is written using the Delphi programming language and at this stage, Embarcadero has not released a 64-bit compiler for Delphi &#8212; although it is on their roadmap and they&#8217;re working on it. As soon as Embarcadero release a public beta version of their Delphi 64-bit compiler we&#8217;ll get to work on building a 64-bit compatible version of Quick PDF Library.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you would like to be notified by email when we release a native 64-bit version of the library please let us know by leaving a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: There is now a 64-bit compatible version of Quick PDF Library available as part of version 8. Read more here. Native 64-bit support is provided for the DLL, ActiveX and Delphi editions. A native 64-bit solution is not yet available but Quick PDF Library can be successfully run on on 64-bit machines using WoW64. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[146,44,147,144,145],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quick-pdf-library","category-tips-and-tutorials","tag-32-bit","tag-64-bit","tag-platform-target","tag-wow64","tag-x86"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickpdflibrary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}