Windows 7 64bit Compatibility For ALL Tools ??

[Mark McLeod]

I think we're running Workbench 3.0.1
Eclipse is the 3.3.1 version

I can't confirm or lookup the appropriate product notes right now though, so I don't know if that is much of a difference or not.

[rrossbach]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

I think we're running Workbench 3.0.1
Eclipse is the 3.3.1 version

I can't confirm or lookup the appropriate product notes right now though, so I don't know if that is much of a difference or not.

Right, I realize the Workbench version currently supplied in the KoP is "old" and isn't supported on Win7 x64 - I guess I should make my question clearer.

It seems like Joe was indicating that we couldn't use a modern Workbench version (i.e. later than WB 3.0) because the later versions didn't support VxWorks 6.3, and we're constrained to use VxWorks 6.3 on the cRIO.

However, per the WindRiver product note it seems that WB 3.3 does support VxWorks 6.3, and it is certified on Win7 x64. So, is anyone working on testing WB 3.3 and possibly getting it included in the KoP, as opposed to the out-of-date WB 3.0.1?

- Ron
Team #2607 controls mentor

[Mark McLeod]

Ah, I didn't understand you were asking for more details about why FRC made the decision not to upgrade to Wind River Workbench v3.3.

[jhersh]

We are exploring several options, but there is no solution yet.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Phalanx

I can speak to the Labview and Camera components on Windows 7 64BIT.

We used Labview and all it's components with Windows 7 64BIT without issues.
The Camera, Driver Station, PSOC programmer, all ran without issues.

We did experience some minor inconveniences when moving the Labview Project to a 32 Bit system as some of the paths changed as well as needing to run Labview as an Admin in 32 bit VISTA to access these files. Stick to either a 32 bit or a 64 bit system and you won't have this issue.

My laptop has 4 GB of ram, and I didn't notice any significant performance improvements. 32 Bit apps on a 64bit system, can still only use 3GB.

hmm...

my team's head programmer got a new laptop during build season... it worked until he tried to connect to the robot (nobody knows why it failed, may not have been win 7's fault)

I have a new (to me) laptop myself and am considering upgrading from xp 32bit to 7 64 bit (yay $30 upgrades for college students). I'd like to have labview since i will be a part time programming mentor next year. sounds like it will work?

[Mark McLeod]

LabVIEW should be fine, since it's certified for 64-bit systems.

Even the Wind River tools might work, although it's not certified. It's just more of a gamble.

[de_]

Thanks for the input so far.
At this point in time I am only an hour into installing Win 7 64. I'm trying to avoid the scenario where I spend the hours fully installing the laptop with all my apps, tools, patches etc and then found out in a few weeks down the road something key to FIRST does not run in Win 7 64. Also its getting harder and harder to buy a new laptop with anything other than Win 7 64 so there will be a lot of people having the same question.

This year was our first year to use Java. So Netbeans is the critical install. But if Labview development (and even Windriver) can all co-exist on the same pc, that's my ultimate goal.

[rrossbach]

Netbeans and Java is fine on Win7 x64, we used it throughout the season. In early versions of wpilibj there was an issue where you had to manually update the ant script to successfully build the library under x64, but those were resolved in an update along the way.

You may need to install both the x86 and x64 versions of the JDK depending on the combination of tools you use with Netbeans. If you run into any problems feel free to PM me and I'll be glad to try to help.

- Ron
Team #2607 controls mentor

[Ramiro_T]

Like I said, its just a difference in processing type. If it was designed to run on 64-bit, then go for it!