I appreciate that modifying the Gambas runtime is no easy task although I think this will be essential soon as more and more people move over to 64 bit desktops. Nevertheless if suitable 32 bit packages could be build for 64 bit systems then at least people could use Gambas on 64 bit desktops.
I have been trying to get Gambas2 running on Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.4 as a demonstration and a much better alternative to current systems based on the Ingres OpenROAD (32 bit) GUI at the moment. OpenROAD is 32-bit only on Linux but runs fine on 64-bit RHEL 4.4. I can get Gambas2 to build/compile/run fine on the i386 build of the O/S but not on the (target) x86_64 version of the operating system.
Has anyone any hints about getting this to work?
I have tried playing around with the --host/--target parameters of configure, done the recommended export CC=gcc32 and even compiled the system on an i386 and tried to install it on the x86_64 system but it will not run nomatter what I do (it just segfaults).
Has anyone any ideas on how to do this?
If Gambas could run and be rock stable on RHEL (64 bit) then there are a lot of legacy applications that could benefit from a modern easy-to-use RAD environment like Gambas on Linux. Obviously if it could be done as a native 64-bit executable then this would be even better.
I am quite willing to put some time in to help if I could get some hints as to where to start.
BTW I managed to get Gambas2 running fine on 32-bit openSUSE 10.2 via source code/recompilation. It's a real shame that Novell didn't build the Gambas packages correctly as it just installed and worked fine on 10.1 as Gambas could be a real killer application for new IT aware Linux users.
