Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: forthrightly@no-email.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: [off-topic] 32-bit libs [Was: SwiftForth Linux eval is 32 bit only!] Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 14:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <13879995-ef2d-4e00-a6bb-6742cdedf4ae@s41g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <2011May5.161723@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: +WPaf99SihO7MMrlVUUdlg.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.forth:1789 On 2011-05-05, Anton Ertl wrote: > > For SwiftForth (and VFX and BigForth) it isn't; it's a little more > effort to retarget a native-code compiler than to port a normal > application. I understand that and I accepted what Elizabeth said. It's a shame the hardware manufacturers got away with forcing 64 bit systems on everyone but they've been the standard for awhile now on desktop and server and it doesn't seem worth fighting. > Anyway, I wonder whether you wouldn't be happier in the mean time with > Gforth, which does 64 bits on 64-bit platforms and therefore does not > need 32-bit libraries. Thanks, I'll have a look. > >>I suppose >>hapless Windows victims who are starting out with Linux and use package >>managed distros and don't compile their apps from source [...] > > In particular, you can compile Gforth from source yourself. That's the right method! Cheers, Harry