[Vm-dev] Suspicious typing in Cog VM

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 01:57:45PM +0100, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, David T. Lewis wrote:
> 
> >
> >On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:30:19AM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> >>
> >>  Hello!
> >>
> >>Types are inconsistent along the source, does Cog VM work on LP64 
> >>platforms?
> >
> >The README file at the root of the Cog distribution says this:
> >
> >The Cogit currently supports only x86 and the floating-point
> >primitives and parts of the platform support code depend on SSE2.
> >I hope members of the community will attempt to port it, e.g. to
> >ARM, PowerPC and x86-64.
> >
> >So no, you should not expect it to work on x86-64. But it should
> >work if you compile it in 32-bit mode on your x86-64 platform
> >(i.e. with "-m32" in the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS).
> >
> >However, I have to admit that I have not yet been able to get
> >this working on my own 64-bit SuSE Linux box, due to issues
> >with libtool on my system. I've been assuming that this is a
> >problem with my Linux system, but I cannot say for sure.
> 
> IIRC this is a problem on all 64-bit linux platforms. The trick is to add 
> -m32 to CC instead of CFLAGS (CC="gcc -m32").


Levente,

Thank you! The CC="gcc -m32" trick is exactly what I was looking for,
and I can now get a successful build.

Aleksej,

You should be able to do the same thing on FreeBSD, although the
specifics of compiling 32-bit programs on 64-bit might be different.

FWIW, the configure command that I used is:

  ../platforms/unix/config/configure CC="gcc -m32" CFLAGS="-g -O2 \
  -msse2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -DITIMER_HEARTBEAT=1 -DNO_VM_PROFILE=1 \
  -DCOGMTVM=0 -DDEBUGVM=0" LIBS=-lpthread

Dave