On Tue, 20 May 2008, Preston de Guise wrote:
>  
>  The company I work for produces a bunch of compiled utilities for our
>  customers, and we're currently using PDK to compile for Windows,
>  Solaris, Linux, etc. Recently the 64-bit Windows 2003 server I've been
>  using to compile on has been reallocated so I no longer have access to
>  it, and I'm looking at a replacement 64-bit Windows.
>  
>  My question is: does anyone know if PDK apps compiled on say, 64-bit
>  Windows XP or 64-bit Vista will run on 64-bit Windows 2003? There's
>  obviously a fairly large price difference between the desktop and
>  server versions of the OS, and if I can get away with just buying the
>  desktop OS but know for sure it will run on the server OS, I'd be happy.

Programs created by 64-bit PerlApp on 64-bit Windows XP should run exactly
the same on 64-bit Windows 2003; there is no reason to build on the server
version.

There are additional issues running PerlApp executables on Vista and 2008
server (ability to embed a MANIFEST in the generated executable), but these
issues are again independent of the platform used to build the executable.

Cheers,
-Jan

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