On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:59:34 Aidan Gauland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Short, yet not byanymeans simple question:
> What's the simplest way (on Debian, in particular) to compile, on an
> amd64 system, for i386 (that is, compling for 32-bit Linux on 64-bit
> Linux of the same architecture)?
> 
> I've tried the -m 32 option to gcc, but that causes ld to freak out:
> /usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file
> `helpimtrappedinanemail.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
> 
> Oh, and I am trying to avoid just compiling on a full i386 Debian
> system in an i386 emulator.
> 
> Thanks,
> Aidan
> 

Are you setting the archtitecture flag while compiling _as well as_ linking?

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