Trouble in generating 32bit GLFW application on Ubuntu 17.04

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Hi Everyone,

I’ve been working on a 3D Engine supporting both 32bit and 64bit on Linux. I’m using GLFW and I was able to successfully generate a 64 bit(amd64) application. I used the in-build supplied Cmake stuff to generate GLFW make files and built.

Whenever I try to build a 32bit(i386) application I always run into this error

skipping incompatible ../RenderingLibraries/lib/Linux/ when searching for -lglfw
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglfw

I understand that the generated libglfw.so is of a 64bit version. My question is how to generate 32bit version of libglfw.so ?
I don’t have much experience in building 32 bit for linux. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Bharath

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This answer for 32bit compilation on Ubuntu 64bit should hopefully point you in the right direction. Basically you need to add the following to the cmake project:

set_target_properties(MyTarget PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-m32" LINK_FLAGS "-m32")

A quick search for cmake -m32 will also turn up more information for you if you want a different approach.

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Thanks for your reply. I use Premake for most of my projects and I’m pretty new to CMake building project files. Can you please tell me more about setting target properties as it requires a target to set ? I can’t figure out what the target is.

Also, I tried to add -m32 flags to both Compiler and Linker flags in the CMakeCache.txt and It is now throwing me follow errors
[ 1%] Linking C shared library libglfw.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXrandr
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXinerama
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXcursor

I installed all the above packages using
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev:i386
sudo apt-get install libxrandr2:i386
sudo apt-get install libxinerama1:i386
sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm1:i386
sudo apt-get install libxcursor1:i386

Even after installing all those packages I see the same “Cannot find” error.

After installing I observed that in the location /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ I see those 32 bit version of shared libraries. but the compiler isn’t able to detect (May be … ) ? ???

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I’m now away at a Games conference and so won’t be able to respond until
next week, but someone else on the forum might be able to help you before
then.

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Following steps worked for me on 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04:

  1. Enable 32-bit architecture:

    dpkg --add-architecture i386

  2. Update apt:

    sudo apt-get update

  3. Install multiarch compiler, 32-bit libraries & dev packages:

    sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib libx11-6:i386 libxrandr-dev:i386 \
    libxinerama-dev:i386 libxxf86vm-dev:i386 libxcursor-dev:i386

  4. Run cmake like this:

    cmake -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-m32" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu path/to/glfw/source

It probably would be simpler & easier just to run 32-bit chroot or docker image.

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Worked for me, but I had to set MATH_LIBARARY by hand to get the examples to build.

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Phew !! Finally I was able to build libglfw.so, libglfw.so.3 libglfw.so.3.2 32 bit after installing a lot of dependencies !!!

Just to help others I wanted to post here what I did.

In order to build 32-bit glfw libraries on Linux(I used Ubuntu), execute the following commands and install the following list of all dependencies

Commands : ( Much listed by @mmozeiko above )
1) dpkg–add-architecture i386
2) sudo apt-get update
3) sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib libx11-6:i386 libxrandr-dev:i386 libxinerama-dev:i386 libxxf86vm-dev:i386 libxcursor-dev:i386

install packages now

packages :

  1. sudo apt-get install libx11-dev:i386
  2. sudo apt-get install libxrandr2:i386
  3. apt-get install libxinerama1:i386
  4. sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm1:i386
  5. sudo apt-get install libxcursor1:i386
  6. sudo apt-get install libvulkan-dev:i386
  7. sudo apt-get install libxrandr-dev:i386
  8. apt-get install libxinerama-dev:i386
  9. sudo apt-get install libxcursor-dev:i386
  10. sudo apt-get install libc-dev:i386
  11. sudo apt-get install libgl-dev:i386

last command
4) cmake -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-m32" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu path/to/glfw/source

You can install built libraries using “make install”, but it would just install in /usr/local/lib/.

Make sure to copy all libglfw.so, libglfw.so.3 and libglfw.so.3.2 files to the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu folder as Ubuntu expects it to be in there for building GLFW applications.

Hope this will help somebody :slight_smile: …

Thank you so much for your assistance guys. I appreciate it :slight_smile:

-Bharath

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