[Openmcl-devel] Execution 32bit ccl on windows 64bit

[Daniel Weinreb]

Just for the record: all of the C libraries
that we use on my project are 64-bit libraries.
-- Dan

Louis Höfler wrote:
> Well, the future is 64, so I recompiled all needed
> libraries for 64bit and everything works now.
>
> If I would spend money for ccl,
> your right, I propably would spend it
> on other more needed parts.
>
> Thank you for the fast reply, Louis.
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Gary Byers [mailto:gb at clozure.com] 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2010 08:33
> An: Louis Höfler
> Cc: openmcl-devel at clozure.com
> Betreff: Re: [Openmcl-devel] Execution 32bit ccl on windows 64bit
>
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Louis Höfler wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> I try to play around with the lispbuilder libraries.
>>
>> However, these libraries need cffi and if I therefore
>>
>> execute ccl 64bit cffi is not able to load the
>>
>> precompile SDL libraries, who are 32bit.
>>
>> I wanted to execute the ccl 32bit version, but
>>
>> it does not start and simply prints out:
>>
>>  
>>
>> C:\ccl>wx86cl.exe
>>
>> This application can't run under this OS version
>>
>>  
>>
>> So, how am I able to use the 32bit version on a 64bit
>>
>> windows. I found no command line option to disable
>>
>> this test.
>>     
>
> 32-bit CCL on Windows tests on startup for the presence of
> functionality that it needs; this functionality (the ability
> to influence where x86 segment registers point) isn't present
> in 64-bit versions of Windows.
>
> We could disable the test (or add a command-line option to do so);
> that's easy.  It's somewhat harder to work around the fact that
> functionality and to make some fairly deep changes to the win32
> version of CCL (and, for extra credit, to make these change in
> a way that doesn't negatively impact other platforms or make things
> significantly harder to maintain.)
>
> It's obviously desirable to do this (and has been for the last year
> or two); it's not a huge project (probably a week or two's work, most
> of it more mind-numbing than challenging).  If someone's looking for
> a low-level CCL systems programming project, let me know and I'll try
> to explain the issues in greater detail.  Otherwise, I imagine that
> Gail or Matt or I will get to it someday, but that's been the plan for
> a couple of years and it's hard to say how soon someday'll be.
>
> (Yes, I realize that this is important.  If it's important enough to
> someone that a few weeks' work can be funded, that'd obviously make
> it happen quicker.)
>
>   
>>  
>>
>> Thank you for support, Louis Hoefler.
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
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