Warp <warp [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in news:47cae3aa@news.povray.org:

> Thomas <thomasvdv [at] gmxnet> wrote:
>> ooh and just to mention it; I got a 32 bit executable:
> 
>   If I'm not completely mistaken, gcc 3.4 has no support for creating
> 64-bit Sparc executables. I don't know if gcc 4 has.

This is Solaris X64 and thus uses Intel x86-64 or Opteron chips not Sparc. 
Turns out that gcc-3.4.3 was installed on the box and that can produce 64 
bit code apparently, but haven't tried that yet.
 
>   If it doesn't, the only way you can create a 64-bit Sparc executable
> is by using Sun's own C++ compiler. However, unless they have brought it
> up to date recently, it probably won't compile POV-Ray.

We have the Sun compiler (for x86) here, but I haven't tried it.,, and not 
sure if I will have time to do so.

Thomas

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