I am trying to run my visual studio (2010) C++ project on an old Windows XP machine that is running VS2010. However, when I run it, I get the error listed in the title of this question. Why is this, and how can I fix it?
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I am trying to run my visual studio (2010) C++ project on an old Windows XP machine that is running VS2010. However, when I run it, I get the error listed in the title of this question. Why is this, and how can I fix it?
In general, a debugger should be the same bitness as the debuggee (or at least it must be able to understand the architecture of the target). In any common siutation, an x86-based debugger will not be able to debug an x64 application.
The Visual Studio documentation says: