During the last 2 days I’ve been trying to compile an old product in 32 bit mode on a 64 bit Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 environment which should not be that hard.
Python itself is no problem:
TCC=“gcc -m32” ./configure
(got information from here)
And this approach works for almost every 3rd party software, except for Scipy.
Scipy contains a lot of FORTRAN code and it wasn’t obvious how to get setup.py to understand that it should both build and link with the -m32 flag.
After a lot of trial and error this is what I used:
F90FLAGS=“-m32” F77FLAGS=“-m32”
LDFLAGS=“-g -Wall -shared -m32 -fPIC”
$PYTHON setup.py config_fc –fcompiler=gnu95 install
There is probably other flags that are better but these worked for me, I think the LDFLAGS is what did it since they are used when g77 is linking the FORTRAN code. The flags also worked fine for numpy.
I will try to write more often but I have had a lot to do recently.