Ikarus Scheme

Ikarus fails to compile under 64-bit OSes

Asked by Abdulaziz Ghuloum

Tom Gordon reports that Ikarus fails to compile under 64-bit OSes (like Mac OS 10.5).
When compiling ikarus, gcc produces the following error:

/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld: Undefined symbols:
___gmp_bits_per_limb
___gmpn_add_n
___gmpn_divrem_1
___gmpn_get_str
___gmpn_mul
___gmpn_mul_1
___gmpn_sub_n
___gmpn_tdiv_qr
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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Abdulaziz Ghuloum (aghuloum) said : 		#1

Jens Axel Søgaard reports that this can be solved by compiling libgmp in 32-bit mode. Jens says:
quote:
  I ran into the exact same problem.

  I downloaded the GMP source and compiled it with default options.
  This produces a 64 bit libgmp, which doesn't work with Ikarus.
  When you run configure for GMP set ABI to 32 bits.
endquote

Thanks to Jens and Jens's brother for the tip.

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Abdulaziz Ghuloum (aghuloum) said : 		#2

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Pierre De Pascale (pierre-depascale) said : 		#3

I have written more step by step instructions on how to run Ikarus on 64-bit Linux at http://www.prefics.ch/blog/2007/11/20/Running%20Ikarus%20Scheme%20on%20%36%34bit%20Ubuntu

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Abdulaziz Ghuloum (aghuloum) said : 		#4

Thanks Pierre for taking the time to write the steps.

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Abdulaziz Ghuloum (aghuloum) said : 		#5

More information about building Ikarus under 64-bit Ubuntu or Debian can be found in this thread:
  http://groups.google.com/group/ikarus-users/msg/486826e30ef59f34