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Trying to build Box64 inside an arm64 container

Open Root-voidX opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

Hello,

So for testing purposes I am trying to build box64 inside a CentOS-7 arm64 container running on my pc.

By default CentOS-7 has cmake-2.18, but i did install cmake-3.14, when I try to compile, it goes until the last step of linking and errors out with undefined references:

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I have glibc-devel and glibc-static installed and I can find libpthreads and pthreads.h in PATH as well. Any ideas?

Root-voidX avatar Aug 01 '22 09:08 Root-voidX

I guess the OS is old and doesn't have those 2 "non portable" thread functions. I'm try to do some workaround later, but there are not emulable and missing them will probably make many things not work properly.

ptitSeb avatar Aug 01 '22 09:08 ptitSeb

Ah i see, I can definitly move to a newer OS then. I wanted to try it on CentOS7 because the application I want to try works best with centos libraries. I did create a CentOS7 x86 chroot with the packages too, can I pass that to box64 so when it looks for libraries it will look in the chroot?

Root-voidX avatar Aug 02 '22 02:08 Root-voidX

yes, just use BOX64_LD_LIBRARY_PATHpointing the chroot.

Also, note that box64 is only for x86_64 programs. x86 (32bits) needs box86.

ptitSeb avatar Aug 02 '22 05:08 ptitSeb

yes, just use BOX64_LD_LIBRARY_PATHpointing the chroot.

Also, note that box64 is only for x86_64 programs. x86 (32bits) needs box86.

Sounds good, I am trying to run Fluent and/or StarCCM+ using box64, they are x86_64 software. Can I use box64 to chroot into my x64 chroot by any chance? I just need the software to know these x64 libraries exist and they can access them, and that box64 can translate them for arm64 cpu?

Root-voidX avatar Aug 03 '22 09:08 Root-voidX