Installation report and instructions: Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit

[Anonymous]

Hi Everyone,

I was able to install rosetta 32 bit (2.3.0) on a 64 bit Ubuntu machine.
I wrote an install log/doc to describe the process in case anyone else would like to do the same in the future.

I realized that gcc 4.1 could work according to this forum post regarding 32 bit install on a 32 bit machine:
[http://www.rosettacommons.org/node/1584

I also googled for solutions and gcc information when I encountered extra problems.

I think that this could be helpful when trying to install on other 64 bit machines in general, not just Ubuntu.

If you have any feedback regarding this installation log/doc/method I’d be happy to know about it.

These are the extra steps I used:
1. In the makefile, add -m32 to LDFLAGS, line 52 should now be “LDFLAGS = -m32 -static -Llib”. This is because we link 32 bit objects. If it’s not there, compilation would work but linking (ld) would fail.
2. Since there was no gcc64 target in the makefile I changed the gcc target, (I could have also defined a new target instead):
2a) Added line 82 as “LIB32 := 1”
2b)Changed line 92 to “OPTFLAGS += -DNDEBUG -O1 -s -m32” (lowered optimization level from -O3 according to wiki, added -m32 to build 32 bit file)
3. Copied the 32bit libz.a supplied by Ubuntu (in /usr/lib32/libz.a from the package lib32z1-dev, “sudo aptitude install lib32z1-dev” if it’s not there) to lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libz.a inside the rosetta++ directory.

Now for extra ubuntu-specific steps based on the forum post mentioned above:
1. Ubuntu 8.10 installs gcc-4.3 and g++-4.3 by default. These do not compile Rosetta++ well (too strict?). However, versions 4.1 do (according to forum post in rosetta’s page).
1a) sudo aptitude install gcc-4.1 g++-4.1
1b) cd /usr/bin
1c) ls -l gcc*
1d) if the symlink from gcc is to gcc-4.3 as it should be, “sudo rm gcc” and “sudo ln -s gcc-4.1 gcc”.
1e) ls -l g++*
1f) if the symlink from g++ is to g++-4.3 as it should be, “sudo rm g++” and “sudo ln -s g++-4.1 g++”.
2. Make sure you have the needed lib32 files. “sudo aptitude install lib32gcc1 lib32stc++6 lib32z1 lib32z1-dev ia32-libs libc6-i386 libc6-dev-i386”.
*note: ia32-libs probably provides more than what’s basically needed, you can try without it first…

==Extra debugging step:
Make sure you can compile “hello world” as 32bit and 64 bit programs and execute them.
“gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello.bin.64”
“file hello.bin.64” should show “hello.bin.64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped”.
“./hello.bin.64” should give “hello, world” output.
“gcc -Wall -m32 hello.c -o hello.bin.32”
“file hello.bin.32” should show “hello.bin.32: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped”.
“./hello.bin.32” should give “hello, world” output.

== and now we can make Rosetta++ using
“make -j2 LIB32:=1 gcc”

(I used -j2 because It’s a dual core machine)
(if you defined a new target instead of the “gcc” one, change accordingly)

while compiling, you can check an object file to see if it is a 32bit object…
“ls .*o” and do “file [filename]” on one of the filenames you found. sometimes you may encounter an empty file which hasn’t been written to yet.

==cleanup
1b) cd /usr/bin
1c) ls -l gcc*
1d) if the symlink from gcc is to gcc-4.1, “sudo rm gcc” and “sudo ln -s gcc-4.3 gcc”.
1e) ls -l g++*
1f) if the symlink from g++ is to g++-4.1, “sudo rm g++” and “sudo ln -s g++-4.3 g++”.

NOTE: of course, extra build tools necessary for every other software are not mentioned in this doc (e.g. the build-essential package, which should already be installed if anything else was previously compiled similarly on the machine ).

Good luck,
Tamir

[Anonymous]

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I was able to install rosetta 32 bit (2.3.0) on a 64 bit Ubuntu machine.
> I wrote an install log/doc to describe the process in case anyone else would like to do the same in the future.
>
> I realized that gcc 4.1 could work according to this forum post regarding 32 bit install on a 32 bit machine:
> [http://www.rosettacommons.org/node/1584
>
> I also googled for solutions and gcc information when I encountered extra problems.
>
> I think that this could be helpful when trying to install on other 64 bit machines in general, not just Ubuntu.
>
> If you have any feedback regarding this installation log/doc/method I’d be happy to know about it.
>
> These are the extra steps I used:
> 1. In the makefile, add -m32 to LDFLAGS, line 52 should now be “LDFLAGS = -m32 -static -Llib”. This is because we link 32 bit objects. If it’s not there, compilation would work but linking (ld) would fail.
> 2. Since there was no gcc64 target in the makefile I changed the gcc target, (I could have also defined a new target instead):
> 2a) Added line 82 as “LIB32 := 1”
> 2b)Changed line 92 to “OPTFLAGS += -DNDEBUG -O1 -s -m32” (lowered optimization level from -O3 according to wiki, added -m32 to build 32 bit file)
> 3. Copied the 32bit libz.a supplied by Ubuntu (in /usr/lib32/libz.a from the package lib32z1-dev, “sudo aptitude install lib32z1-dev” if it’s not there) to lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libz.a inside the rosetta++ directory.
>
> Now for extra ubuntu-specific steps based on the forum post mentioned above:
> 1. Ubuntu 8.10 installs gcc-4.3 and g++-4.3 by default. These do not compile Rosetta++ well (too strict?). However, versions 4.1 do (according to forum post in rosetta’s page).
> 1a) sudo aptitude install gcc-4.1 g++-4.1
> 1b) cd /usr/bin
> 1c) ls -l gcc*
> 1d) if the symlink from gcc is to gcc-4.3 as it should be, “sudo rm gcc” and “sudo ln -s gcc-4.1 gcc”.
> 1e) ls -l g++*
> 1f) if the symlink from g++ is to g++-4.3 as it should be, “sudo rm g++” and “sudo ln -s g++-4.1 g++”.
> 2. Make sure you have the needed lib32 files. “sudo aptitude install lib32gcc1 lib32stc++6 lib32z1 lib32z1-dev ia32-libs libc6-i386 libc6-dev-i386”.
> *note: ia32-libs probably provides more than what’s basically needed, you can try without it first…
>
> ==Extra debugging step:
> Make sure you can compile “hello world” as 32bit and 64 bit programs and execute them.
> “gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello.bin.64”
> “file hello.bin.64” should show “hello.bin.64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped”.
> “./hello.bin.64” should give “hello, world” output.
> “gcc -Wall -m32 hello.c -o hello.bin.32”
> “file hello.bin.32” should show “hello.bin.32: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped”.
> “./hello.bin.32” should give “hello, world” output.
>
> == and now we can make Rosetta++ using
> “make -j2 LIB32:=1 gcc”
>
> (I used -j2 because It’s a dual core machine)
> (if you defined a new target instead of the “gcc” one, change accordingly)
>
> while compiling, you can check an object file to see if it is a 32bit object…
> “ls .*o” and do “file [filename]” on one of the filenames you found. sometimes you may encounter an empty file which hasn’t been written to yet.
>
> ==cleanup
> 1b) cd /usr/bin
> 1c) ls -l gcc*
> 1d) if the symlink from gcc is to gcc-4.1, “sudo rm gcc” and “sudo ln -s gcc-4.3 gcc”.
> 1e) ls -l g++*
> 1f) if the symlink from g++ is to g++-4.1, “sudo rm g++” and “sudo ln -s g++-4.3 g++”.
>
> NOTE: of course, extra build tools necessary for every other software are not mentioned in this doc (e.g. the build-essential package, which should already be installed if anything else was previously compiled similarly on the machine ).
>
> Good luck,
> Tamir

Hi,

I found these instructions to be very helpful. I’ll add that I found it necessary to install g++-4.1-multilib and lib32stdc++-4.1-dbg in order to get it to compile. Thank you for the writeup.

~jws

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I followed what was suggested by Tamir above, but my problem is gcc-4.1 is no longer available. I noticed that the post was in 2009.
Sorry, but anyone please help me?

I tried both make and scons, but none worked.

For MAKE, i got the error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: ***[rosetta.gcc] Error 1

And for SCONS, i got:
KeyError: “Unknown version number 4.4 for compiler gcc”

Thanks, and please help.

chinhsutran

[Anonymous]

Assuming you’re trying to install 2.3.1, edit the rosetta++/tools/build/basic.settings file. At line 179 or so, where it has the “gcc, 4.1” block, copy those 9 lines into a new block, and then change the ‘4.1’ into 4.4 and ‘[ “4”, “1” ]’ into ‘[ “4”, “4” ]’. Then try re-running scons. If you run into problems, try deleting the two lines which say ‘”compile” : [ “-param inline-unit-growth=1000″,”-param large-function-growth=50000″ ],’ and try it again.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much.
As I couldn’t wait for the solution, so I tried the install on another machine which runs Linux RedHat 64bit and gcc 4.1.2.

I did as instructed by TamirEr (above) again, but also ran into some issues. However, I got help from another colleague, and it was successfully installed. Hence, just wanna share the small changes here in case someone ran into the same error as I did.

Note: my gcc version is 4.1.2 while the gcc version Rosetta++ needs is 4.1.1.

We followed exactly what Tamir suggested, but we deleted the “-static” in line52 of the makefile. My line 52 becomes:

LDFLAGS = -32 -Llib -L”/usr/lib” -L”/usr/lib64″ -lstdc++

And it worked.

Hope it help. And thanks to all of your help, esp. to TamirEr and rmoretti.

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