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. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>>> Google Groups "sage-devel" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/pQw-LawYZPA/unsubscribe. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>>> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/c37d3e6e-6f99-48b9-a6f7-f0a1ed69d364n%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/c37d3e6e-6f99-48b9-a6f7-f0a1ed69d364n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "sage-devel" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAD0p0K68wAx5Vfsu8iRVfpqs6wWUC9JVcW-vOTq--bku-xsZWw%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAD0p0K68wAx5Vfsu8iRVfpqs6wWUC9JVcW-vOTq--bku-xsZWw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/pQw-LawYZPA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAHnU2dawPa5EYeoYHxYuqWoBbOeaFZu2XVGDPwEeDvRY4X3K%2BA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAHnU2dawPa5EYeoYHxYuqWoBbOeaFZu2XVGDPwEeDvRY4X3K%2BA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAD0p0K45kYQqQnoU9qH46Cot%2BSi5h0rogH4qwqOUF4AvEhta5A%40mail.gmail.com.
