Re: How to find out whether the installed OOo is 32- or 64-bit

On 04/11/11 14:42, rony wrote:
>
> On 11.04.2011 13:16, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> On 04/11/11 12:24, rony wrote:
>>> What I would be after would be to get this information at installation
>>> time without any user-interaction (most won't know what would be asked)
>>> in a platform independent manner.
>>>
>>> Something equivalent to a hyptohetic "uninfo bitness" returning either
>>> "32", "64" or "32 64" (if a universal binary).
>>
>> I don't think there is something better than inspecting the binaries
>> with platform specific tools right now.  Internally, of course, OOo
>> knows what "platform" (x86 Linux, x64 Linux, x86 Mac OS X, etc.) it
>> is---this is at least needed when filtering out extension material
>> that is not appropriate for the given platform.  (Also, the standard
>> ways to interact with an OOo installation is either via UNO, which
>> abstracts over those platform details, or through extensions, which
>> already support platform differences.)
> It seems that this is some sort of a chicken and egg problem.
>
> E.g. on MacOSX: if one uses Java to query the configuration via UNO, it
> may be the case that 64-bit Java is used instead of a 32-bit Java when
> getting in touch with OOo/UNO, which may be a 32-bit (and sometimes in
> the future) a 64-bit implementation or both (universal binary).

Right, when you want to use the OOo's URE to set up a UNO connection to 
OOo, you easily run into this chicken/egg problem.

> If no crash is to be expected, what configuration service/path should I
> use to figure out the architecture/memory model? (Didn't find anything
> in the schema "Setup.xcs" nor in "Setup-brand.cxu".) Or with other
> words, is there an XML-file that carries this information, and if so
> what is its name and element (this would be even easier to analyze
> without the need to directyl interact with UNO).

Jochen (now on CC) should know how OOo's extension manager determines 
the current platform.

-Stephan
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