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   albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl to minforth@gmx.net   
   Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64   
   05 Jul 25 14:31:28   
   
   In article ,   
   minforth   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   The theory is that assembler Forth are less portable.   
   I had a 64 bit ciforth running in a matter of weeks (2008).   
   (But macro's handling 16/32 difference were in place already)   
      
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