[Numpy-discussion] building 32 bit numpy on 64 bit linux

[David Jones]

As a follow up, here's an explanation of how to do this without pip or
virtualenv. To do it with virtualenv, just place the wrapper scripts in
your virtualenv's bin directory:

To build python:

Install python build dependencies (on Centos 6). Make sure to get the i686
packages:
tk-devel, tcl-devel, libX11-devel, libXau-devel, sqlite-devel, gdbm-devel,
readline-devel, zlib-devel, bzip2-devel, openssl-devel, krb5-devel,
ncurses-devel, valgrind-devel, valgrind, libxcb-devel, libXft-devel, tk

CFLAGS="-g -O2 -m32" LDFLAGS="-m32 -Wl,-rpath,/opt/python/ia32/
lib" ./configure --enable-unicode=ucs4 --enable-shared
--prefix=/opt/python/ia32 --with-valgrind
make
make testall

To build numpy:

Install numpy dependencies:
atlas-devel, lapack-devel, blas-devel, libgfortran

Now you just need to use some compiler wrappers, so the "setup.py build"
command will append the -m32 to flag to every call to the compilers. You
need to wrap gcc and gfortran, and possibly g++ as well. Place the wrapper
scripts and a link to your python executable in a directory, e.g. ~/bin.
You could also use virtualenv to make this easier:

cd ~/bin
ln -sfn /opt/python/ia32/bin/python
touch gcc g++ gfortan
chmod u+x gcc g++ gfortran

Now edit the wrapper scripts:

#### gcc ####
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gcc -m32 "$@"

#### g++ ####
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gcc -m32 "$@"

#### gfotran ####
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gfortan -m32 "$@"


Add ~/bin to the front of your path:
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

Build numpy:
python setup.py build



On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:58 PM, David Jones <david.jones74 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm trying to compile 32-bit numpy on a 64 bit Centos 6 system, but fails
> with the message:
>
> "Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program"
>
> It get's the compile flags right, but not the linker:
>
> C compiler: gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -m32 -DNDEBUG -g
> -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC
> compile options: '-Inumpy/core/src/private -Inumpy/core/src -Inumpy/core
> -Inumpy/core/src/npymath -Inumpy/core/src/multiarray -Inumpy/core/src/umath
> -Inumpy/core/src/npysort -Inumpy/core/include -I/opt/python/ia32/include/python2.7
> -c'
> gcc: _configtest.c
> gcc -pthread _configtest.o -o _configtest
> _configtest.o: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> I'm bulding it using a 32bit python build that I compiled on the same
> system.
>
> I tried:
>
>   OPT="-m32" FOPT="-m32" python setup.py build
>
> and
>
>   setarch x86_64 -B python setup.py build
>
> But with the same results.
>
>
> Someone worked around this by altering ccompiler.py, but I'm trying to
> find a cleaner solution.
>
> See:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11265057/how-do-i-
> install-a-32-bit-version-of-numpy
>
> Is there a standard way of doing this?
>
> Regards,
> David J.
>
>
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