Gizmo on amd64 [SOLVED, sort of]

MathFreak · Last edited by MathFreak on Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:19 pm; edited 2 times in total

For those of you that don't know, Gizmo is another Voip application like Skype. Like Skype, it's only available in a 32bit flavor. Unlike Skype, it doesn't appear to want to run in 64 bit linux. I can get it to work in my 32bit chroot, though, but if possible, I'd like to run it without a chroot. There's a bug here, but no one seems to know how to fix it. The first problem I have is the lack of a libtiff.so.4, as described in the bug. I went into /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib and symlinked the libtiff library to libtiff.so.4, which is what I had to do to get it to work in my 32 bit chroot, but it doesn't seem to recognize it. Running ldconfig, however, shows libtiff.so.4 in my /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib directory. Any ideas?

Of course, running ldd on the program shows a whole host of other libraries that it's missing, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
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jk3us · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:59 am Post subject:

I was really excited when I learned about gizmo and their plans to release a linux version... Unfortunately, I haven't seen much in the way of a good release for it yet... All they have right now is a not so good version for linsipre and debian. I haven't had any luck getting it to run under gentoo at all (neither x86 or amd64), but gave up several weeks ago. Anyway, I'm just gonna wait it out and see if they ever release something that works.... sorry for not being much help.

Adwin · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:35 am Post subject: Re: Gizmo on amd64

MathFreak · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:57 am Post subject: Re: Gizmo on amd64

axelmasok · Apprentice Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 171

Ah yes. I had it running after copying a multitude of libraries from another 32bit install. It became a cat and mouse game with libexpat.so.1 which led to all sorts of pain. I did have it running and it didn't run well anyway - crashed all the time and sound was a problem. I'll try them again when they take Linux seriously and give us a reliable tar.gz. If....

MathFreak · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject:

OK, like the edited title says, I'm almost there. I compiled every library I could think of in my 32 bit chroot. I managed to get almost everything working. At the very least, all the libraries are there. But when I try to run it, I get this:

MathFreak · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject:

Actually, since it might be useful:

MathFreak · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject:

OK, I can get it to work. Sort of. I think I went a little too hogwild in compiling 32bit libraries. The gizmo binary I'm using (I think it's from the Fedora RPM) needed libpangocairo, so I just copied over all the libpango libraries from my 32bit chroot. However, the emul-linux-x86-gtklibs package has its own pango libraries (just not the ones with cairo) and they're set to use /etc/pango/i686-pc-linux-gnu/pango.modules whereas the ones from the chroot use /etc/pango/pango.modules. So, I kept the ones from the emul-linux-x86-gtklibs package and just copied over the libpangocairo ones from the chroot. Now it runs. Also, I could use all the pango libraries from the chroot if I copied the pango.modules into /etc/pango.

Unfortunately, I'm at school at the moment and could only see it run through VNC. I'll have to wait until this evening to try the voice stuff. If anyone's interested I could probably provide the libraries I used.
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