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   Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64   
   04 Jul 25 12:18:56   
   
   From: minforth@gmx.net   
      
   Am 03.07.2025 um 21:47 schrieb David Schultz:   
   > On 7/3/25 11:30 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:   
   >> David Meyer  writes:   
   >>>       libX11.so.6 Library not found!   
   >>> (The first message is displayed in spite of the fact that package   
   >>> libx11-6 is already installed.)   
   >>>   
   >>> Any clue what I'm doing wrong?   
   >>   
   >> Maybe you need libx11-dev ?   
   > It would fail at the compile stage if that were the problem. More likely   
   > is that the version required isn't there. On my system I find:   
   >   
   > $ locate libX11.so   
   > /usr/lib/libX11.so.6   
   > /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.4.0   
   > /usr/lib64/libX11.so   
   > /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6   
   > /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.4.0   
   >   
   > Both 32 and 64 bit versions.But oddly there isn't a 32 bit libX11.so.   
   > (Just a link as are most of these.)   
      
   AFAIK 32-bit libs have to be installed manually. The wole shebang:   
      
   sudo apt update   
   sudo apt-get upgrade   
   sudo apt-get install build-essential   
   sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib   
      
   With gcc, you'll also need the -m32 compiler flag.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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