[ogg-dev] lib64

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com wrote:

> That makes more sense, I suppose, is this to allow code that's
> broken on 64 bit platforms to still be used ?

One common use is to allow people to run the 32 bit version
of Mozilla and then use the binary-only 32 bit Flash plugin.

> Out of curiosity, how would you go about building a 32 bit lib
> on a x86_64 bit system (or the other way round) ? Would you
> have to cross compile ?

Effectively yes. The 64 bit version of GCC on my ubuntu system
also allows building 32 bit executables by passing the -m32
command line option.

Erik
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