[Slackbuilds-users] building virtualbox

[Carl Kreider]

Wow!  Such response!  Thank you all very much!

Carl

On Dec 12, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Ryan Northrup wrote:

> On Dec 12, 2014 8:27 AM, "Carl Kreider" <carl.kreider at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have waded through a few years of archived messages but didn't find an answer to this: Regarding virtualbox, what does "NOTE:This will not build on a stock x86_64 system" mean?  It will not build at all?  It needs a non-stock system to build?  If so, what is a non-stock system?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Carl
> 
> Virtualbox needs 32-bit libraries at compilation-time, which aren't available by default on a 64-bit install.  You'll need to install 32-bit libraries via multilib.
> 
> At runtime, however, 32-bit dependencies are not needed (IIRC), so once it's compiled, you shouldn't need the 32-bit libs.  This is why the precompiled versions from Oracle reportedly work on stock 64-bit Slack.
> 
> -- Ryan
> 
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