I'm not going to get into as much detail into this as the first post's explanation, but there is actually a second roadblock to getting RTools working on 64-bit Windows, though this one is specifically in regards only to WER-related needs; in the current system, v3 works fine under 64-bit Windows with modifications to fix the first 64-bit issue.
The issue is in regards to the back-end database that is used in WER and how Java connects to it. In short, it uses a library that is present by default in x86 Windows, but not in x64. So, when RTools tries to connect to WER's database, it gets back an error saying that no valid connection method was chosen in the code.
So, how does this get fixed? I'm still looking into this one; there's a route that involves some pretty steep licensing costs, but I'm looking for specific methods to do this without needing to ship additional libraries with RTools. (or pay a licensing fee of almost $1000)
Here's one plus, though: In the current alpha version with the new wrapping process, the size of the program has dropped almost 60%.
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