Re: Compiling/generate 32-bit version of a program on x86-64

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On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 10:14 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> My platform is AMD-64 running Fedora 4 64-bit version. Is there a way for me 
> to compile and generate 32-bit version of a program ( in C )? How does one do 
> that using GCC ? Since 64-bit version also install all the 32-bit 
> compatibility library, that should not be a problem, is it ? 
> 
> One of the reasons I want to do this because I have an object file ( .o ) that 
> I need to link againts, but the object file is in 32-bit, and I don't have 
> the source to regenerate the object file. During linking, ld generates 
> warning :
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `api/render.o' is 
> incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
> 
> and the program will segfaults if run, which does not happen if I compiled the 
> program in 32-bit machine. But since my working desktop is 64-bit, I am 
> wondering if there's a way for me to do it without having to look for 32-bit 
> machine.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> RDB
> -- 
> Reuben D. Budiardja
> Dept. Physics and Astronomy
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
> 

Either add "ARCH=i386" before the ./configure line or add the "-m32"
switch to gcc.

Gilboa


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