My prof. has asked me to do assembly language programming in linux through NASM X86 64 bit.
Since,I have Mac with me the programs will need to be modified for the MacOS, may be due to the system calls and whatever other reasons.
How shall I replicate the same environment as asked by my prof.in my macos ?
Will it be good enough if I install linux in my Macbook ?
If yes, then what will be the difference between the "Linux in Windows PC" and "Linux in Mac" in terms of programs that I will write ?
If no, then how shall I deal with that ?
Will it be good enough if I install linux in my Macbook ?
Installing it in a VM might be more convenient (you don't need to reboot to go from MacOS to Linux), but installing it directly on your Macbook will also work.
If yes, then what will be the difference between the "Linux in Windows PC" and "Linux in Mac" in terms of programs that I will write ?
"Mac vs. PC" marketing terminology not withstanding, Macs run the same types of x64 CPUs as "regular PCs" and Linux doesn't care which other operating systems are also installed on your system. So if you write assembly on a Linux on an x64 Mac, you'll use the exact same x64 instructions and Linux syscalls as you would when running Linux on an x64 non-Mac.
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I have been wonder about why x86(windows) to arm(linux) cross compile is possible but x86(windows) to x86(linux) cross compile is impossible or difficult only can use cygwin
As below link there is some cross-compiler for windows to arm from personal pc(x86), but there is no cross-compiler x86 to x86.
http://gnutoolchains.com/beaglebone/
why window(x86) to Debian(ARM) is available without cygwin , but window to Debian(x86) is difficult or must use cygwin?
Is this issue caused by POSIX size problem? The library size of Debian in ARM is little bit smaller than x86 ones?
I confuse....
I want to anyone clear to me.
Thank you for reading.
I installed WSL and then Debian as an Windows-App
directly under my Windows10 Home Edition.
Now I can open a Linux command prompt in every directory I want.
Installed g++ with apt-get (changed to root with "sudo su").
Using Mingw64 command prompt from the Git-Bash I can even use the same shell script
to compile console apps as Linux and Windows executables!
I presently run Linux 2.4.27 (Debian Sarge) on a PowerPC Mac G4 machine. I need to write software for Linux 2.4.18 running on a PowerPC 405 machine, and the binaries I am producing on my Mac G4 running 2.4.27 with both GCC 3.3.5 and GCC 2.95.3 (I have both installed) are having problems; I have built a static version of cURL with both compilers that segfaults when run on this 2.4.18 PowerPC 405 machine. I have noticed that binaries built on a 2.4.18 kernel with a cross compiler work (x86->PPC), however. Unfortunately, the machine that makes those binaries is unavailable to me, and I am really trying to get the Mac to be the "one stop shop" in this development effort (I want to be able to test and run on this machine).
I cannot find a 2.4.18 distribution of Linux for PowerPC anywhere. What can I do to build binaries that will work on a PowerPC 405 machine running Linux 2.4.18 given a PowerPC Mac G4 running a 2.4.27 kernel? Is building GLIBC for 2.2.5 and setting the compilers to use it the answer, or do I have to somehow build a whole kernel of 2.4.18 to support what I am trying to do?
Several weeks later, it appears that the solution suggested by user sessyargc.jp was indeed to use a cross compiler. I am accepting my answer only because I want to close this question out and I can find no way to give sessyargc.jp credit, since he/she only made a comment. Still, thank you sessyargc.jp for pointing the way!
I solved a similar problem in the past, I used the QEMU emulator on my x86 machine.
QEMU emulates the PowerPC-405 CPU too, here is the list of emulated PowerPC CPUs https://github.com/hackndev/qemu/blob/master/target-ppc/STATUS.
QEMU turns your PC in an hypervisor i.e. works like VirtualBox. But QEMU can also emulate CPUs that are different from the host PC one.
You can install and run a PowerPC Linux VM on a standard(cheap) x86 PC and compile your binaries directly in that VM. CPU emulation is a bit slow, but it works.
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I wrote an application in C++ for linux (X11, GLX) and it is working alright on my development computer (32-bit linux on 64-bit capable hardware). However, when I ran it on a 64-bit linux downstairs, I received an error telling me the linker failed to link stdlibc++.so.6, but I thought 32-bit compiled application could run on 64-bit kernels and Oses as well? At least that is the case in Windows... Do I have to separately compile 32 and 64 bit with different libs?
And how do I properly distribute my application? It's a game, and currently you have to run a makefile to let it move its dependencies to the /usr/lib/ directory (a kind of amateur installer). Will this work on all mainstream linux distro's? And are there better, neater ways to release your application?
My .deb package, built on 32-bit Ubuntu and containing executables compiled with gcc, won't install on the 64-bit version of the OS (the error message says 'Wrong architecture i386'). This is confusing to me because I thought that in general 32-bit software worked on 64-bit hardware, but not vice-versa.
Will it be possible for me to produce a .deb file that I can install on a 64-bit OS, using my 32-bit machine? Is it just a matter of using the appropriate compiler flags to produce the executables (and if so what are they), or is the .deb file itself somehow specific to one processor architecture?
The deb installer is probably refusing to install your package because it was (correctly) labeled with a conflicting Architecture: field. i386 code can be executed on an amd64 machine, but it requires that all the appropriate dependencies (32-bit libraries, etc.) be present. It's better to build separate packages for each architecture.
Yes, you can build for 64-bit on your 32-bit machine. It's called cross-compiling, and it requires that you create a build environment for that purpose. To get started, you might want to look up the dpkg-cross and apt-cross tools.
Alternatively, you can just install a virtual machine running a 64-bit OS, and build for your secondary architecture there.
The architecture is just an option in the config file of debian package. By default it uses those from uname. You can override it but there is an easier way.
In general, most 32-bit programs will run fine on 64-bit. However, unless you have a very old PC, it is also very easy to install a mini 64-bit debian in a virtualbox virtual machine. You probably only need base + build essentials + dev libraries. This will not take a lot of diskspace. If you can spare 2G diskspace, just install a desktop debian.
There are more options to do crosscompilation, with various degrees of automation.
I use the virtualbox method regularly. It is easy and fast.
If you run 64-bit linux making a 32-bit environment is as easy as mkdebootstrap + linux32 + chroot.
How is Linux simultaneously 32bit and 64bit? Or is that something handled in glibc?
I run CentOS 5.3 and it is a "64 bit" version; although I build things for 64 bit and 32 bit. From what I think I know, Windows supposedly has a 32bit emulator. Does Linux do the same thing? Is it in userspace or kernel space?
If libc handles it, is it kind of like a emulator that says, I'll link with 32 bit apps, but speak 64 bit to the kernel?
The cpu can execute both 64 and 32bit instructions and the kernel can switch between modes. The only limitation is that you cannot link 32bit programs against 64bit libraries so you must have both 32 and 64bit versions of libc, etc. installed.
Nothing is stopping the cpu from switching from 64bit to 32bit. It just switches.
You can have a 64 bit kernel, and run 32bit apps. You can even have a 32bit kernel and run 64bit apps(Mac os x).
However you need the libaries they use to also be 32bit or or 64bit, which is why you might see files called lib64 or lib32 on linux for the 64bit or 32bit libaries.
Because x86_64 processors are designed over x86 technology, they are still able to support 32-bit programs without any hardware emulation, like what you would need to run x86 programs in a PowerPC or Sparc environment. In Linux, all you need to do is install the necessary software libraries to run the 32-bit software.