In slackwarecurrent two interrelated packages were updated yesterday. Fred emmott has announced the release of slamd64 linux 12. In this post, ill describe how to manually get a version of mingww64 that should supports multilib i. Download gcc 7 multilib packages for debian, ubuntu. This option means that the floating point registers are not available, which means that floating point operations must be done by calling an emulation subroutine rather than by using machine instructions. Check the deps directory where you downloaded this package and installupgrade the packages you find there. Now, all you need to do is to install 32bit versions of slackware s system software so that future 32bit programs that you are going to install andor compile will find all the 32bit libraries they need.
Slackware comes with all of those preinstalled if you do a full install, so you may not need to even install xampp to get the functionality it provides. Multilib gcc updated to address changes in slackwarecurrent alien. The glibc packages in slackware current were updated to 2. Doing a kernel upgrade is likely going to be a problem, if you need to compile a module, since the module has to be compiled with the same version of gcc that compiled the kernel. Compat32pkg, a tool for managing packages to format. Creating a multilib toolchain for slackware, from scratch when you want to build a native multilib toolchain for slackware64 glibc, gcc and binutils, there are some problems to overcome. I copied the files gcc multilib package files at the same location mentioned in gcc multilib package file list though. The real question here is why do you need to run 64 bit slackware in the first place. Compat32pkg is an automated tool that provides all the necessary for managing converting, installing, upgrading, removing the 32bit part of alienbobs multilib for slackware 64, and all 32bit packages from slackware 32 for which users could find a needs into a 64bit environment, like firefox, seamonkey, jre, if you want to learn more about compat32pkg, you can check its. Most of what im going to describe is based on the mingww64howtobuild guides that one can.
Im trying to install quartus ii as per the wiki instructions. Hi folks, got slackware64 with multilib support running smoothly with no issues here, but need to confirm one point. Slackware gcc multilib packages rebuilt alien pastures. Installupgrade the packages in the deps multilib subdirectory instead.
A dependency package on architectures with multilib support. Then, system libraries are taken from 32bit slackware and installed in the 64bit slackware. Unfortunately, a couple of issues were reported, you will find them in this linuxquestions thread since i had to compile my multilib version of glibc still, i decided to wait a bit with releasing them, and that allowed me to find and apply the patch reported in the above thread that seems to solve the issues. Im trying to build a gcc multilib tool chain on amd64 version of fresh ubuntu 14. The update which was announced for slackware current today mentioned new gcc and glibc packages alongside a new kernel. This is a pure64bit slackware in the sense that it is unable to compile or run 32bit binaries out of the box.
Adding multilib capability to slackware on x86 64 architecture. It turns out that the update of libmpc caused a library. Found 18 matching packages exact hits package gcc multilib. Then, system libraries are taken from 32bit slackware and installed in the 64bit. Slackware is a linux distribution created by patrick volkerding in 1993. So its either recompile the kernel with the old gcc or upgrade gcc yourself. Have you verified youve installed the multilib packages which replace gcc and glibc packages on the system and all the compat32. First, you will upgrade your 64bit slackware gcc and glibc packages to their multilib versions by running the command. The ktown updates are targeting slackware current only. Originally based on softlanding linux system, slackware has been the basis for many other linux distributions, most notably the first versions of suse linux distributions, and is the oldest distribution that is still maintained slackware aims for design stability and simplicity and to be the most unixlike linux. Introduction to linux a hands on guide this guide was created as an overview of the linux operating system, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter. This will upgrade gcc and glibc packages, and also install a new package called.
A multilib installation means that you have replaced slackware s 64bit gcc and glibc packages with multilib versions ie. You use the upgradepkg program to upgrade to my multilib versions of gcc. This subset is provided by multilib s version of packages glibcsolibs, glibc, glibci18n, glibc. Also, you have installed a set of converted 32bit slackware packages on your 64bit multilib slackware. My wife and i both have kobo ereaders, and on my android phone i use fbreader to read my books on the road whenever i have some free time having calibre on a computer still requires a usb cable to transfer ebooks from the computer to your ereaderphone, but networked. The upgrade of glibc and gcc which i described in the previous section changes your system from multilib ready to multilib enabled. One of the programs i use a lot on all my computers is calibre, the ebook library management system. The following information may help to resolve the situation. Updates of the kde 5 package sets for slackware 14. Gcc, the gnu compiler collection native language support files gcc 4. Multilibpkg, a tool for managing 64bit part of alienbobs. You have searched for packages that names contain gcc multilib in all suites, all sections, and all architectures. So if you need the nvidia drivers, youre kind of screwed until gcc multilib updates. Switch to multilib with 32bit compatibility on slackware64.