If you are using Visual Studio 2005/2008 Standard Edition, no configuration is needed to build
Intel® 64 architecture applications. For other editions:
1. From Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs, select “Microsoft Visual Studio 2005”
(or 2008) > Change/Remove. The Visual Studio Maintenance Mode window will appear.
Click Next.
2. Click Add or Remove Features
3. Under “Select features to install”, expand Language Tools > Visual C++
4. If the box “X64 Compiler and Tools” is not checked, check it, then click Update. If the
box is already checked, click Cancel.
To use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008 Team System Edition to build applications to run on
IA-64 architecture systems, follow the above steps and ensure that the box “Itanium Compiler
and Tools” is checked.