[Elecraft] Wishlist--K3 utility for Linux amd64

[David Sanders]

Nate, adding the 32 bit libs to a 64 bit system is quick and easy on Debian. Only the necessary packages will be installed. The complete procedure including the download takes about 5 minutes. Look on the Debian wiki for the multiarc instructions. 

The tool chain doesn't currently support 64 bit Linux targets. They're not building with gcc. As soon as the tool chain is upgraded you'll probably see a 64 bit utility. 

But it really is easy to load the 32 bit libs and the utilities work flawlessly. 

73 David W4DES

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> On Dec 18, 2014, at 7:04 PM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:
> 
> Here is a wishlist item.
> 
> Please consider offering the K3 and P3 utilities in the "amd63"
> architecture for the users of popular 64 bit Linux distributions.
> Despite the nomenclature, "amd64" runs on the common 64 bit processors
> manufactured by AMD and Intel.  In fact, I run Debian amd64 on Intel i5
> based machines.  In my experience, building for amd64 should be quite
> straight forward these days and just a matter of setting the target
> architecture correctly.
> 
> Yes, I could install the i386 multiarch packages and planned to do so,
> but it pulls in many duplicate (i386 and amd64) packages and since I
> have a slow Internet link, I'm trying to preserve my bandwidth.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 73, Nate
> 
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