== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article > dsimcha wrote: > > == Quote from Ellery Newcomer (ellery-newco...@utulsa.edu)'s article > >> Walter Bright wrote: > >>> davesun wrote: > >>>> when can I use dmd on 64bit linux ? > >>> > >>> You can now - 32 bit executables work fine on 64 bit linux! > >> Maybe I should try it again sometime, but I ran into linker issues when > >> I tried using DMD on 64bit linux. Other than that, DMD worked fine. > > > > Same here, but only on some installations of 64-bit Linux. Others work > > fine. I > > think the key is that you need the 32-bit version of GCC and all the > > libraries > > like libpthread, libgcc, libc, etc. available. I've been nagging my > > sysadmin to > > install these, though it matters less for me now that I have the DMD source > > and > > was able to make DMD work on some other Linux boxes that it previously > > didn't work > > on for unrelated reasons. If you have a bunch of Linux boxes around, you > > can also > > compile on one that has the 32-bit libs and copy the resulting binary over > > to one > > that doesn't, and it will usually work. > On Ubuntu64, which is my main linux dev machine, the following is necessary: > To compile 32 bit programs under ub64: > sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib libc6-i386 lib6-dev-i386 > To run 32 bit programs: > sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib > sudo apt-get install g++-multilib > (After long bitter experience, I now keep notes on how to configure the > machine after a fresh install <g>.)
Seems I might have to as well. Before installing these, I was getting a "file not found" error running dmd. Now everything works perfectly. Talk about a confusing error message!
