Fw: How to Port 32bit source code in compatible to 64bit OS

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:06:20PM +0100, Holger Krull wrote:
>Syam Prasad Nagabairu schrieb:
>
>>I am having only 32bit linux system.
>
>That makes testing a bit difficult.
>
>
>>application to be build should be compatible to 64 bit. Is there any cross
>>compilation facility for this.
>
>Don't know of any. But you could instruct the compiler and linker to use a 
>64 Bit environment as a target. You will need the 64 Bit libs installed for 
>linking. The effort to do this is much larger than setting up a 64 Bit 
>Suse. Rent a root server with 64 Bit Suse if you don't want to spend much 
>money or need things fast. You will need a computer for testing anyway.
>Maybe you don't need that at all, as all 64 Bit Distros bring the 32 Bit 
>libs along with them. I have not found a program compiled for 32 Bit 
>environment that doesn't work on a 64 Bit system. 

This is off-topic for the cygwin-xfree list and, actually, doesn't seem
to be pertinent to the main cygwin list.

Maybe the gcc-help mailing list at gcc.gnu.org would be a better place
to discuss this.  Please do not continue this discussion in cygwin-xfree.

cgf

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