Thanks Matthias & Waldek

My OS and machine are strictly 64 bit. I really don't want to mix architectures. I benchmarked a 32 bit Debian install against a 64 bit Debian install and the 64 bit version was significantly faster for my particular hardware mix. CPU is a little AMD C-70 APU.

Maybe I missed something. Had no idea the version of the binary I downloaded was the 32 bit. AH well. Apparently there are no 64 bit binary installs on the GPC website. Doesn't surprise me. That site hasn't been updated in a long time. Would love to give it a face lift, let people know that GPC isn't completely dead.

I wanted to start getting involved in GPC again by simply installing the most recent binary from the website and NOT do a complete build. Ah well!

I saw your repo on github, Waldek. I haven't built GPC from source in over 10 years! I incorrectly thought installing the binary from the website would be easier. Ah well!

Over the next few days I will try to build the source and perhaps see just how confused I can make myself!

Thanks again

-Ken

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 9:21 AM Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> wrote:

On 12.06.19 16:04, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> Ken Linder wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Thought I would try installing the most recent version of GPC on my Debian
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Stretch machine. I downloaded gpc-2.1-with-gcc.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
> ^^^^^^^
>
> gpc-2.1 is quite old and a lot developements happened after it was
> released
>
>> and expanded it as specified here:
>> https://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/Binary-Distributions.html#Binary-Distributions
>>
>> It doesn't matter what options I use when trying to run the GPC compiler.
>> I always get the following error:
>>
>> -bash: /usr/local/bin/gpc: No such file or directory
>>
>> I think something is missing somewhere, just not certain what.
>>
>> So the simple question before digging in: Has anyone successfully installed
>> the 2.1 compiler on Debian Stretch? If so, was there something additional
>> that needs to be done?
>
> You skipped most important piece of information: is your system 32-bit?
> You fetched old 32-bit version of GPC. Vast majority of PC-s now
> are capable of running 64-bit system and there are definite advantages
> to doing so. So there is good chance that you have 64-bit system.
> In the past 64-bit systems had pretty good support for running
> 32-bit binaries. But new distributions by default are only
> capable of running 64-bit binaries. For example, Debian 7 on
> machine that I write this is neiter able to create 32-bit binary
> nor to run one if I fetch 32-bit binary from other machine.
> When trying to run binary error message is exactly the one you
> gave: before normal ELF binary runs kernel has to run
> appropriate version of 'ld-linux.so'. If 32-bit support is
> not installed needed version of 'ld-linux.so' is missing.
>
> If you want to stick to old version you need to install support
> for 32-bit binaries, that is several packages which used to be
> installed by default, but now are in some obscure part of repository.
> Sorry, that I do not give you more details, but I do not remember
> more details. I gave you enough keywords so that you can search
> net yourself.

see https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO, then you can install 32bit packages
using apt install libc6:i386 ...

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