[opensource-dev] Linux 64bit and gstreamer

[Marc Adored]

Awesome I will checkout the latest then and try to compile it. I
wasn't aware it was even close to working. I'm excited now.

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Boroondas Gupte
<sllists at boroon.dasgupta.ch> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On 12/10/2010 06:51 PM, Mike Chase wrote:
>
> Can someone point me to a summary of 64bit support for Linux
> for that series of viewers?  I know in the past I was able to run a
> 32bit version but with no streaming media.
>
> See the forum thread Linux 64 bits and medias.
>
> On 12/10/2010 10:29 PM, Marc Adored wrote:
>
> I've been hoping for linden
> to really work on simplifying the 64bit building because 64bit systems
> are being more and more popular with the need for more and more
> memory. I do believe someone was working on fixing this in the
> opensource community but I don't recall who
>
> For the viewer-development branch, that'd be me. Although I mostly just
> ported others' fixes that already existed for the 1.x code base and/or
> Snowglobe 2.
>
>  or how far they got.
>
> Should be fully working now (see below), if you start form
> viewer-development (or viewer-beta or viewer-release). About the
> mesh-development branch ... well, that's another animal entirely when it
> comes to building 64bit (due to new dependencies and whatnot).
>
>
> On 12/11/2010 04:46 AM, Mike Chase wrote:
>
> On 12/10/2010 08:06 PM, Carlo Wood wrote:
>
> Huh huh... No need to install 32bit libs! Just compile the viewer
> yourself! I've been running native 64 bit since day one.
>
> Carlo, do you have a script or a pointer to the steps to do the build?
>
> All necessary steps should be on the wiki at Compiling the viewer (Linux).
>
> Is it simply the standard steps or something special.
>
> Because Linden Lab does not provide pre-built libraries for 64bit linux,
> you'll have to build "standalone", i.e., using system libraries. (See What
> does 'Standalone' mean?) Thus you'll need to have all build time
> dependencies installed into your system. The wiki article linked above lists
> debian and ubuntu package names for most dependencies. Standalone-specific
> steps are included and marked as such (e.g. through section naming).
>
> The build documentation tends to get out-of-date quickly. If you decide to
> build yourself and run into troubles or have further questions, please do
> ask on this mailing list or on IRC (channel #opensl on freenode) so that you
> can be helped and the documentation improved/corrected.
>
> Good luck & cheers,
> Boroondas
>
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