ML/ML64 Ambiguity

[brunobrook]

Greetings to all and thanks for any answers to these questions.

I have installed visual studio 9 or 10 (it doesn't matter which for purposes of these questions).  I see that there are more than one of each ML.EXE and ML64.EXE in the folders that were created.  They are different in size but their date/time/versions are the same.  Is there a difference between these different programs and if so, which version is used for what purpose?

Also, this question may be slightly off topic for this area but if there is a quick answer, I would very much appreciate it.  the version of ML.EXE that is with MASM32 is much older.  Does this imply that the newer versions can't be gotten to work with MASM32?

[frktons]

Greetings to all and thanks for any answers to these questions.

I have installed visual studio 9 or 10 (it doesn't matter which for purposes of these questions).  I see that there are more than one of each ML.EXE and ML64.EXE in the folders that were created.  They are different in size but their date/time/versions are the same.  Is there a difference between these different programs and if so, which version is used for what purpose?

Also, this question may be slightly off topic for this area but if there is a quick answer, I would very much appreciate it.  the version of ML.EXE that is with MASM32 is much older.  Does this imply that the newer versions can't be gotten to work with MASM32?

- ML.exe is for 32 bit programs
- ML64.exe is for 64 bit programs
- you can use newer ML.exe with MASM32, but not simply copying the new
file into MASM32 bin folder, there is a little more work to do.

If you want to install the new version, search the forum, somewhere it has been
discussed what files you need to copy.

Frank

[Igor]

@frktons
He is probably talking about ml64.exe being present in two different folders: amd64 and x86_amd64.

I think that x86_amd64 folder is for compiling 64bit apps in 32bit OS.