Two more good ideas! I have an older 64bit laptop not in daily use on which
I could certainly try installing a 32 but distro.  But if I can just tell
GCC to build eclib for 32 bits (and can run what it produces) that would
seem perfect.

I will try that tomorrow. Otherwise this will be waiting for 2025 as I have
other things to do. Which are more fun...

John

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, 15:37 Grégory Vanuxem, <g.vanu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I forgot to say that you need also to install the 32 bits libc. Other
> libraries like GMP for example are likely available or you will have to
> also cross compile them.
>
> Installing build stuff to cross compile your library will install 32 bits
> libc for you I think. This is necessary to run 32 bits applications.
>
> Le dim. 15 déc. 2024, 16:13, Grégory Vanuxem <g.vanu...@gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Le dim. 15 déc. 2024, 15:14, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> Well I am giving up on using my 20+-year-old hardware.  I have made many
>>> attempts to install a 32-bit distro (debian, MX, Mint) but all failed -- in
>>> the case of Mint, there was kernel panic before it even got going.  I did a
>>> 100% successful memtest but there must be other hardware problems.  To the
>>> dump!
>>>
>>> I have never tried any emulation.  My own newest (9 year old) laptop has
>>> sufficient power but rather little space on its disk (even after deleting
>>> all those iso images I downloaded).  Other machines I have access to are
>>> heavily used by people who need them (e.g. for their PhDs) and quite old
>>> too, so I would be nervous about using them.
>>>
>>> Without that, eclib will not get any 32-bit testing, unfortunately.
>>>
>>
>> I wonder why you are not cross compiling your eclib using -march etc.
>> flags for gcc and consorts. If you use a Debian based distribution issue in
>> your interpreter:
>>
>> apt-cache search gcc | grep 32
>>
>> You'll find what you are looking for. Google will help you also I think.
>> I remember having compiled CMU CL in that way it's (was?) a 32 bits
>> software.
>>
>> Of course your processor must be able to run 32 bits applications, I hope
>> it's the case.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> - Greg
>>
>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 at 12:46, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Using qemu/kvm is definitely the way to go for development. You'll save
>>>> lots of time compiling/testing with a modern CPU. There is also a number of
>>>> utilities that simplify setting up virtual machines, e.g. gnome-boxes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 5:08:57 PM UTC+1 Georgi Guninski
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> > VirtualBox VMWare
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been using qemu for more than 10 years and i am satisfied.
>>>>> Advantages: works fine everywhere. doesn't require any extra kernel
>>>>> modules
>>>>> Disadvantages: misses some shiny "features" like shared clipboard,
>>>>> but it is security advantage.
>>>>>
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