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Why does monodevelop on linux only provide an "any cpu" platform?

I am building a c# console application on linux. But all of my applications I have built are in x86 architecture.

When I go into

Solution Options -> Configurations -> Add

the only Platform option I get is Any CPU

How do I get a 64-bit build configuration?

Solution

  • Any CPU will pick the best option for your particular architecture, but your project will still build x86 even if you are on x64 if you have your compiler set to x86.

    Somehow my Project Options -> Build -> Compiler -> Platform Target got set to x86. I'm not sure if it was me updating Xamarin studio / monodevelop or what that caused that to get reverted to x86 but at some point i had correctly set that to x64.

    Now that I moved the compiler back to x64 and rebuilt, I have a 64 bit application building again!

    So something to watch out for if you are someone else who is seeing that same problem.