OpenOffice2.0 64Bit ready?

[Bob Willcox]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:05:34AM -0600, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:51:00AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:13:33AM +0300, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 10 August 2005 06:47, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:53:09PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:28:40AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > > > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 01:13:45PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > > > > > > Dear Sirs.
> > > > > > > I do not follow up everything written herein, so my question may
> > > > > > > sound stupid.
> > > > > > > On my FreeBSD 6.0 AMD64 box I run a 'clean' 64 Bit FreeBSD 6.0 (no
> > > > > > > 32Bit compatibility). I want to use OpenOffice from time to time
> > > > > > > reading Word or Excel documents. Can we compile and run OO 2.0
> > > > > > > without 32 Bit compatibility enabled? I know this implies 64Bit clean
> > > > > > > code, so the major question would be whether OO 2 is 64 Bit clean or
> > > > > > > not.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > No OOo isn't 64-bit clean.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is it possible to build and run a 32-bit version of OOo on AMD64?
> > > >
> > > > Build, no.  Run should be possible.  Someone really needs to sit down and
> > > > wrap their heads around the Ports Collection and make it so that we can
> > > > install 32-bit i386 packages (actually just the .so's) on FreeBSD/AMD64.
> > > 
> > > I actually tried this just the other day, using pkg_add to install the 32bit 
> > > OOo. There were no errors during the pkg_add, but when I try to configure:
> > > 
> > > $ /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.5/setup
> > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsal.so.3" not found, required by 
> > > "javaldx"
> > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsb645fi.so" not found, required by 
> > > "setup.bin"
> > > 
> > > I haven't really had time to investigate this further though.
> > 
> > I had the same problem when I tried to run a 32bit version of OOo on my
> > AMD64 system; and like you, haven't had a chance to persue it yet.
> 
> I'm running the 32 bit Linux version from SuSE 9.3 under emulation on
> my amd64 box and its working quite well, so there is always that option.

I have not been so fortunate there either. I don't recall which Linux
version I tried, but whichever it was it wasn't much better. It would
start up okay but crashed easily. I may try that again, but I really
would prefer a native FreeBSD version (either 32 or 64 bit, doesn't
really matter to me).

Bob

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