Re: Building 32-Bit ONLY Perl on Mac OSX

Hi,

You are trying to build 32bit application on a 64bit osx.  You will need 
to tell both the compiler and the linker that you want to build 32bit 
apps.  Gcc is easy enough with the -m32 flag.  ld is a little trickier. 
On linux, I have to link using "ld -melf_i386" instead of plain ld.   Run 
ld -V to see what emulation modes are available to you.  I don't have a 
64bit macosx to help you.  Building 32bit perl on a 64bit os will require 
you to change the make file to build with gcc -m32 and get the ld to link 
with the proper parameter.  You may have to temporarily move ld to ld.bin 
and make a script that calls ld.bin -melf_i386 (or whatever fits your neeed) 
as ld so it links properly if you can't get the makefile do you what you 
want.

Regards,

Michael



On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, [email protected] wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:48:54 +0200
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Building 32-Bit ONLY Perl on Mac OSX
> 
> Hi DBI-Users,
>
> my question isn't directly related to DBI, but i need to compile a 386/32
> Bit ONLY Perl Binary on Mac OSX 10.6 (SnowLeopard),
> not only but also because we only have a 32 Bit Oracle Instant Client...
>
> No Matter what Config-Params i tried, the only thing i get is the
> following:
>
> "...file was built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked
> (x86_64)"...
>
> Does anyone have an idea or a good link?
>
> BTW, this problem seems to happen also on 64-Bit Linux...
>
> Thanks in advance for any idea
>
> Kai
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