64bit

[BizarreDC]

Hello, I have been testing with the standard implementation of the engine with success, however our actual server platforms are all Debian 64bit. We have tried following the basic instruction about how to compile for 64bit, alas it does not seem to work.

Has anyone managed to get the 64bit working or knows how we could try?

if so how?

cheers!

[WebMaster]

Hi BizarreDC,

first of all you need to know that the binaries aren't 64bit binaries. So you need the ia32-libs package to run these binaries on a 64bit platform (I use the 64bit edition of Debian 3.1).
Once you have started the installation, you can find the libflixengine2.so.0.2 library, that's compatible with 64bit language bindings, under $HOME/flix-engine-installer.<pid>/.flix-engine-installation-files/testing/lib64/.
Copy this library to a place where you can find it later on an proceed with the installation. When it comes to the the installation of the desired language binding, install the sources but 'skip' the build during install to avoid errors.
Once you've finished the installation, copy the 64bit version of libflixengine2.so.0.2 to /usr/local/lib (or any other place where the libraries have been installed).
Now you can build the language bindings. I needed the perl language binding, so I changed to /usr/local/src/flixmodules and executed compile-flix-perl-module.sh. The compilation worked fine.

Unfortunately the module test failed:
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/test_flixengine2....dubious
Test returned status 0 (wstat 8, 0x8)
DIED. FAILED test 1
Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/test_flixengine2.t 0 8 1 2 200.00% 1
Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 1/1 subtests failed, 0.00% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] error 2

Though I installed the module an ran the sample script for perl and got a floating point exception.

At this point my 64bit experience with the flix engine ends :-(

So I still have two more questions that probably only On2 can answer: When will this 64bit library work on all platforms and will there ever be a real 64bit version of the Flix Engine with 64bit binaries?

Cheers!

[hannung]

Hi,
I also tried to install the Flix SDK on a 64-bit machine with php wrapper on linux.
Could anyone tell me where to locate the directory ?
$HOME/flix-engine-installer.<pid>/.flix-engine-installation-files/testing/lib64/

I tried to extract the installation file download from the site
"flix-engine-installer-linux-8.0.8.2.tar.gz"

and also search for all the directories on linux machine. However, I still cannot
find it:confused:

Thanks

[apryan]

That folder is created when you first launch the Linux binary. What I typically will do is start the binary for installing the package and copy the entire folder so I can use it once install is completed.