Kicad Nightly 64bit showing up as 32bit

[rpo]

Hi,
I installed the latest nightly build, kicad-r21402.366189b864-x86_64.
The “About KiCad” window shows…

Version: (5.99.0-9295-gb484c0787b), release build
Platform: Windows 8.1 (build 9600), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:Date: Feb 22 2021 23:20:35

But Windows Task Manager shows kicad.exe (32bit).

Is this behavior intended?

[paulvdh]

I don’t know about windoze, but if I just run “kicad-nightly” from the “start menu” then I get two entries in my system monitor on my Linux box.

That screenshot was taken after just starting the project manager. I have no knowledge of KiCad’s internals and don’t know which process does what.

After that I started both Eeschema and Pcbnew from the KiCad project manager, and they do not appear as separate processess in the system monitor.

However, if I close KiCad’s project manager and then start eeschema-nightly from the “start menu”, then I get two entries in the system monitor. One for “eeschema” and one for “eschema-nightly”.
It looks a bit weird to me.

Both the stable KiCad V5.1.x and the nightly V5.99 can be installed and run at the same time.

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Ah, now I noticed

@rpo

(32bit).

I thought that KiCad does not run anymore on a 32 bit os. However, if I go to: https://kicad.org/help/system-requirements/ then it still shows 32 bit processors.

Supported Processor Architectures
Intel (or compatible) 32 and 64 bit.
PowerPC 32 and 64 bit.
ARM 32 and 64 bit.
MIPS 64 bit.

At the moment I’m unsure whether I was wrong and 32-bit is still supported, or that part of the website was not updated when 32-bit was dropped.

[rpo]

At least for Windows there is still 32bit support.

Here is what I see:

Windows Task Manager

The (32bit) is only added to he “program.exe”, if its a 32bit program running on 64bit windows.
I am running Windows 8.1 64bit.
All other native 64bit applications don’t have that (32bit) addition in the
Task Manager.

[eelik]

Is it possible that you have downloaded and installed the 32-bit version even though you have the 64-bit installer in your file system? It has happened to me.

[Seth_h]

@rpo Can you open an issue here to let us know about the problem

[marekr]

I mean…he has the about dialog showing 64-bit…
And loading up the latest nightly on my system

Bothers me to fix the manifest for the kicad.exe though

[rpo]

Thank you all for your ideas.
I decided to completely wipe my KiCad installation, and install new.
Maybe one of the updates in the past went wrong… I updated my installation since
2 years every month.
So I downloaded the latest installer kicad-r21422.51d445007f-x86_64
Now the problem is gone.

Problem solved.