32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

navneet Upadhyay navneet.upadhyay at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 16:13:48 UTC 2008


Yes i am using few libs not built on FreeBSD but they work fine on 32 bit
freeBSD , so in principle they shud have the same behavior on 64 one.

On 2/18/08, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
>
> navneet Upadhyay wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >         For our product we generally compile the binaries on 32 bit
> systems
> > and use them for both 32 and 64 bit systems. like we have same binaries
> for
> > 32 bit and 64 bit RHEL.
> >
> > We are porting the product to FreeBSD and when we tried the same,
> > i.erunning binaries compiled on 32 bit FreeBSD
> > 6.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD system they produce *core dump.*
> >
> >
> > Any known reasons, do we have to compile binaries on 64 bit machine.
>
> This should not happen. I would blindly guess at a linking problem. Are
> you
> using any shared libraries that do not belong to the base system?
>


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