32-bit compatibility

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Wed May 26 10:21:19 PDT 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:03:35AM -0400, Luke Beaulieu wrote:
> 	I'm currently building a web server that will be setup with
> FreeBSD/amd64. It must run Apache with mod_ssl and the Frontpage
> extensions module from RTR (http://www.rtr.com).
> 
> 	Can FreeBSD run a 32-bit module (mod_frontpage) and a 64-bit web
> server reliably? This server will be in a production environment so I'd
> like to be sure. Thanks for any help.

That's not possible.  The ABI of the module (a dynamic library) and
the web server are not the same so the module can't be loaded (linked).

-- Brooks

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