[sword-devel] 64 bit operating system support?

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 03:16:54AM -0800, David Haslam wrote:
> Updated news from Nic.
> 
> "I believe that all apps and updates needed to be compiled for 64 bit by the
> middle of last year."
> 

FWIW, I've been compiling Xihos (and all its dependencies that aren't
provided by Centos/epel--i.e., I've compiled Sword, lucene, biblesync)
for Cenots 7.x (Linux) as 64-bit for some months now.

Or are you referring to some other platform?

Fred
> then later he replied:
> 
> ----
> 
> I have yet to look. I gave things a try about 2 years ago and saw they
> didn’t work out of the box. I switched back to 32-bit and haven’t looked at
> it again since, sorry.
> 
> Having a 20 second look now, CURL will need updating (easy). clucene will
> need updating (hopefully easy?). The Zip utilities I use need updating. The
> HTTP server stuff I use (for MMM) needs updating.
> 
> A fresh compile when I have enabled what Apple wants me to enable generates
> 374 warnings (perhaps more, we’d need to eliminate them to see if there are
> still more left?) and 4 errors (in CURL because of arch issues).
> 
> Looking at more of the warnings, some are from libsword itself.
> 
> Ok, 2 minutes of cleaning up and . . .  same warnings but only 3 errors now. 
> 
> Yup, it will need a bit of work to make it 64-bit ready, but hopefully most
> of the work will have been done by others in the 3rd party libs that are
> causing issues. 
> 
> David
> 
> 
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