How to make Azure Compute Emulator work in 32-bit mode?

Question

So, I found some articles here about stack overflows and other places that show how to use Startup Tasks to start Azure in 32-bit mode.

The problem is that this does not work with Compute Emulator.

I wrote a working role that starts a service that calls an outdated version of FORTRAN. However, this DLL only works in x86 mode. Therefore, I need to get the Azure emulator to enable 32-bit applications.

I work on Windows 7 (or 8 if it works better), or VS2010, or VS2012, and the error I get is "On this system, Compute Emulator supports AnyCPU and x64."

Anyone have any great ideas?

Answer 1

This is the first time I hear that Azure runtime can run in 32-bit mode. A typical solution to this situation is to use some kind of interaction and run 32-bit code in a separate process - for example, a DCOM server or WCF service, so it doesn’t matter if the Azure runtime runs in 32-bit or 64-bit.