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