Re^2: How to find out if it is 32bit or 64bit windows?

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Re^3: How to find out if it is 32bit or 64bit windows? by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 22, 2011 at 16:10 UTC
Are you sure? It seems to me it's reporting the CPU bitness, not the OS bitness. When I run your original test it still reports bitness as '0'. I may be wrong but I don't believe it's safe to assume that CPU bitness == OS bitness. Dave	[reply]
Re^4: How to find out if it is 32bit or 64bit windows? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 22, 2011 at 16:31 UTC
I don't believe it's safe to assume that CPU bitness == OS bitness. You cannot run a 64-bit build of an OS on a 32-bit processor. You can run a 32-bit build of an OS on an (intel) 64-bit processor, but that is done by running the CPU in 32-bit compatibility mode, when for all intents and purposes, it is a 32-bit processor. So, whilst it may be possible to distinguish between the two scenarios, there is little benefit in doing so as none of the 64-bit facilities would be available to you. Leastwise, none that I can think of. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply]
Re^5: How to find out if it is 32bit or 64bit windows? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 24, 2011 at 15:03 UTC
So the module returns 32-bit for a 64-bit CPU running a 32-bit OS?	[reply]
Re^6: How to find out if it is 32bit or 64bit windows? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 24, 2011 at 16:05 UTC
Re^7: How to find out if it is 32bit or 64bit windows? by Burak (Chaplain) on Jun 27, 2011 at 00:23 UTC
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Re^4: How to find out if it is 32bit or 64bit windows? by Burak (Chaplain) on Jun 24, 2011 at 11:36 UTC
Hi davido, A couple of questions: What's your Sys::Info::Driver::Windows::OS and Sys::Info and perl versions? ActivePerl, Strawbery or your own build of perl? What's your Windows version (XP, Vista, 7, etc)? How did you install Sys::Info::Driver::Windows? (ppm, gcc, cl)? Thanks, Burak	[reply]
Re^5: How to find out if it is 32bit or 64bit windows? by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 24, 2011 at 15:52 UTC
`$Sys::Info::VERSION` is 0.78 `$Sys::Info::Driver::VERSION` is 0.78. `perl -v` => This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 2 (v5.12.2) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread. Strawberry Vista Home Premium 64 bit, service pack 2. Version 6.0.6002. `cpanm` was my installation tool. I verified `Sys::Info::Driver::Windows` is also 0.78. Strawberry Perl includes a 'gcc' C compiler with it so that modules can be installed through traditional means rather than relying on ppm packages. cpanm would have invoked the gcc compiler. Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: How to find out if it is 32bit or 64bit windows? by Burak (Chaplain) on Jun 27, 2011 at 00:25 UTC