GP in GNU/Linux 64b

[bromagosa]

I've just been given a new 64b computer at work and I can't seem to get GP to fire up:

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bromagosa@edutec [ ~/GP/GP-alpha-041 ] %./gp
./gp: 12: ./gp: runtime/linux_gp: not found

This is what happens if I try to run linux_gp straight away:

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bromagosa@edutec [ ~/GP/GP-alpha-041/runtime ] %./linux_gp 
zsh: command not found: ./linux_gp

Any pointers?

[bromagosa]

I've worked this out, luckily I've just been given this laptop with a fresh Debian install and I practically had nothing installed in it, so these should be universal steps:

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# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt-get update
# apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 libasound2:i386

That should be all!

[JohnM]

Thanks for posting the solution to this problem.

We are currently distributing only 32-bit versions of GP for all platforms since that is the most "universal" (i.e. the 32-bit version works on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines). Many 64-bit machines come with 32-bit libraries installed by default, but apparently your new 64-bit Linux machine did not. It's good to know how to get the 32-bit libraries if you don't already have them.

[JohnM]

The following set of commands worked for me on a different 64-bit Linux system:

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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 libasound2:i386

I'm not a Linux expert, but I think gcc-multilib includes libc6:i386, libncurses5:i386, and libstdc++6:i386.