[chuck-users] ChucK on 64-bit Linux, bad news

[Ge Wang]

Dear all,

Thanks again for the input and sorry for punctuating the spam  
equilibrium with my barrage of posts!  I think with the recent posts,  
we are definitely narrowing down a list of high priority targets for  
the next round of development.  We'd love to see 64-bit ChucK happen,  
but don't have a good idea of how soon we can get that done.  We will  
investigate it in the next few weeks and come up with a plan of attack.

Thanks again for the continued input on this.  Earlier posts on 64- 
bit can be found here and probably a few other places:

https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/pipermail/chuck-users/2007-April/ 
001750.html

Best,
Ge!

On Jun 18, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Ken Restivo wrote:

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> Alas, the hack I was going to do will not work, and ChucK is out of  
> the picture for me until the ChucK developers are able to make it  
> 64-bit clean.
>
> I was planning to build JACK in 64-bit and 32-bit versions and then  
> build ChucK in 32-bit mode and link it against the 32-bit versions  
> of the libraries, and thus have ChucK use 32-bit libraries to  
> converse with the JACK server and all the other 64-bit softsynths  
> and audio applications.
>
> But I have been told by one of the JACK developers that this would  
> not work anyway, because you can't have 32-bit and 64-bit apps  
> conversing with the same JACK server.  There are pointer-size fixes  
> they could do to enable this, but not too many people clamoring for  
> it, so it's low priority.
>
> I'm told that it is possible to run ChucK on a 64-bit Linux system,  
> by turning it into a 32-bit system: one would have to build an  
> entire 32-bit chroot environment, including *all* audio apps, and  
> run *all* the audio apps, and JACK itself, in 32-bit mode. I ain't  
> going there.
>
> Cool language, though. I'll revisit it a couple years from now, and  
> see how it's progressed.
>
> - -ken
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