Test MBS in FMP on Windows with ARM?

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Hello,
I made a function to detect the system information and to know whether a computer with Windows runs in emulation on ARM.
Does someone have such a computer to try my new function for me?

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Hi Christian

I’ve an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro running Parallels, Windows for Arm and FileMaker if that’s any help? Or are you after pure hardware?

Kind regards
Andy

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Parallels may be good.
FileMaker run there on Windows?

Could you run MBS( "SystemInfo.WindowsSystemInfo"; 0 ) and MBS( "SystemInfo.WindowsSystemInfo"; 1 ) and tell me the results?

The plugin is in the dropbox here:

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Andy, you had the chance to try it?

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Hi Christian.

On the agenda for tomorrow. Today we saw our son for the first time in 6 months, he has been in lockdown in London. We exchanged Christmas presents and had a meal together outside due to good weather and rule changes here.

Was a higher priority :grinning:

I’ll send over the details tomorrow.

Kind regards
Andy

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Enjoy your time with your son!

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Thanks Christian, it was a good day thanks.

Results below:

MBS( "SystemInfo.WindowsSystemInfo"; 0 )
{
"ProcessorArchitecture": 9,
"ProcessorArchitectureText": "AMD64",
"Bits": 64,
"PageSize": 4096,
"ActiveProcessorMask": 3,
"NumberOfProcessors": 2,
"ProcessorType": 8664,
"ProcessorTypeText": "X8664",
"AllocationGranularity": 65536,
"ProcessorLevel": 15,
"ProcessorRevision": 1034
}

MBS( "SystemInfo.WindowsSystemInfo"; 1)
{
"ProcessorArchitecture": 9,
"ProcessorArchitectureText": "AMD64",
"Bits": 64,
"PageSize": 4096,
"ActiveProcessorMask": 3,
"NumberOfProcessors": 2,
"ProcessorType": 8664,
"ProcessorTypeText": "X8664",
"AllocationGranularity": 65536,
"ProcessorLevel": 15,
"ProcessorRevision": 1034
}

As far as I can see there is no difference between the 2 options.

Tests carried out in Parallels Version 16.3.2 (50531) Technical Preview, Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview Build 21343.1000, FileMaker Pro v 19.2.1.14 on a MacBook Pro M1 16Gb/ 1Tb running Big Sur 11.2.3

I hope this helps and let me know if I can be of further assistance.

Kindest regards.
Andy

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Thanks for testing.
Seems like Intel on ARM 64-bit emulation lies and doesn't reveal the real native architecture.

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No problem. It is difficult to say for sure until this can be genuinely tested on hardware and not (Apple Silicon) emulation.

I'll keep my eyes open for another opportunity.

Kindest regards
Andy

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Can you try again?

But this time, please try SystemInfo.WindowsMachineInfo function, as that one may get the right information. SystemInfo.WindowsSystemInfo will report the emulated values.

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For macOS we have SystemInfo.isTranslated function already to detect Rosetta.

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OK, interesting. Would be fun to run this on something like a Microsoft Surface Pro X and remove the emulation on emulation to compare the results.

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Christian, I'm getting "[MBS] Unknown function: SystemInfo.WindowsMachineInfo. Did you mean SystemInfo.WindowsSystemInfo?"

I've also copied the function format from your Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: SystemInfo.WindowsMachineInfo website, but get the same result.

The MBS plugin is activated in FileMaker Pro 19 and SystemInfo.WindowsSystemInfo still works.

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Are you sure you got the new build from today?

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Ah, that would be the missing piece of information :wink:

Result:
{
"ProcessMachine": "ARM64",
"NativeMachine": "ARM64"
}

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Strange that ProcessMachine is reported as ARM64 and not AMD64.

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Thank you.

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