Hi Vinay,
I had problems when trying to start apps compiled with 2005 SP1 on Vista
x64 and XP x64 systems with WF4. The first toolkit app would never
start but all of the others would start okay. After lots of testing and
working with PTC to figure out what was wrong it turned out to be 2005
SP1 that caused the issue. When I compiled the apps to x64 on 2005
(without SP1) all of the apps would start fine. It was strange that
only the first app would not start - even if I changed the order of apps
in config.pro or through the protk.dat, so that's why it took so long to
figure out. The last one I tested with was WF4 M070 and it still had
the problem.
Here is something from PTC's site that sort of explains why:
The issue is caused by an incompatibility between the base package and
SP1 of Microsoft Visual Studio .net 2005. The Wildfire4.0 libraries that
are built with the base package, fail to work with SP1. In order to make
the Wildfire4.0 libraries work with the SP1, they would have to be
compiled with SP1 as well.
However, since the base package is the supported configuration
(published in our platform support notes), there are currently no plans
to support the SP1 at the expense of the base package. Once the SP1 will
be supported, it will be updated in the platform support pages.
At this time the platform support pages will be changed to explicitely
decertify the SP1 on Windows XP 64-bit Edition for dll creation with
Pro/TOOLKIT.
Bryan
