On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 05:40:15PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones <rjones <at> redhat.com> writes: > > It turns out that [NSIS is] not just built for 32 bit because of the > > general hideousness of the code, but because it builds Windows 32 bit > > plugins. Somehow -- and I've no idea how it does this -- the Windows > > plugins get loaded into the native Fedora binary at runtime. > > Those plugins don't actually get loaded into the Fedora binary. They get packed > into the generated installer image. Aha ... I'm glad someone knows what's going on here (not me :-) I thought that the Stubs were copied into the output binary, but the Plugins got loaded into the executable, but I seem to be wrong about that. > > Even though the main binary is Fedora native, it still has to be built as > > 32 bit to achieve this minor miracle. > > The Debian folks worked hard on making NSIS build as a true 64-bit > binary, not with -m32, and as far as I know their patches got merged > upstream already. The W32 plugins need to be built with the MinGW > cross-compiler of course, not the native compiler, so they aren't > affected by this problem at all. I'm actually using Debian's patch, but I rebased them against 2.39. Debian is on 2.19 for reasons I can't determine, but 2.19 doesn't build on Fedora (it looked like a gcc error, but I didn't examine it in great detail, because the newer version builds fine). > I can have a try at making a proper x86_64 package with the plugins > actually built from source. What I know is that my hack (packaging > the binary plugins from the prebuilt ZIP and rebuilding makensis > from source as 64-bit) worked. Please, and if you can supply patches against our repository, or I can get you commit access, then all the better. Of course, building anything from binaries isn't acceptable. It has to be all built from source. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
