Re: cross-compiling on 64 to 32-bit Linux

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 23 May 2009, John Calcote wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering what the procedure was for cross-compiling 32-bit apps on a 
> 64-bin Linux system? Do you need special libraries. What command-line options 
> are used? That sort of thing. I'm happy to read up on it, if there are 
> references that you can point me to.

I see that Jan Engelhardt has already responded.  The first thing to 
know is that Linux is a kernel and that some 64-bit Linux systems 
support running 32-bit applications while some other 64-bit Linux 
systems are 64-bit only.  64-bit only systems are likely to provide a 
GCC which only produces 64-bit applications.

Bob
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