Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit

[Mario Lobo]

On Monday 06 June 2011 22:31:30 Rob wrote:
> On 6/6/11 8:13 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:
> > On Monday 06 June 2011 17:56:53 Rob wrote:
> >> I was attempting to install virtualbox on my 8.2-p2 64-bit system this
> >> weekend, and hit a rather curious situation.  The pre-packaged version
> >> of virtualbox retrievable by pkg_add is 3.2.12 (which looks in
> >> ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release).  Poking around on the ftp server, I
> >> see that packages-8.1-release also has a 3.x version, but
> >> packages-8-stable has the latest 4.0.8.
> >> 
> >> I went to look in ports, which contains 4.0.8, and build it myself but I
> >> got an error saying I need to have the 32-bit libraries installed in
> >> order to build virtualbox.
> >> 
> >> So, my question is 2-fold:
> >> 1) What is the reason the 64-bit pre-packaged version of virtualbox is
> >> still at the 3.x version?  Would there be a problem with installing the
> >> packages (virtualbox and kernel module) from packages-8-stable?
> >> 
> >> 2) How do I build virtualbox 4.0.8 on a 64-bit system w/o the 32-bit
> >> libs.  Is that possible?  Searching around has produced old e-mail
> >> threads indicating this was a problem as of 2 or so years ago with the
> >> 3.x release.  If it's not possible to build w/o the 32-bit libs, what do
> >> I need to install?
> >> 
> >> Rob
> > 
> > You need to rebuild your kernel with
> > 
> > options		COMPAT_FREEBSD32	# Compatible with i386 binaries
> > 
> > included.
> 
> I'm running the stock 8.2 kernel.  Is that option compiled into the
> kernel?  Where do I find the options that are enabled in the stock kernel?

I believe the stock kernel follows the GENERIC conf file which DOES include 
the COMPAT_FREEBSD32 option but I'm not 100% sure. Maybe someone on the list 
could confirm that.
 
> Also, does COMPAT_FREEBSD32 mean I don't need the 32-bit libs for
> compilation, or that the kernel will run binaries compiled for 32-bit
> systems?  If the later, then I'll still need to install the 32-bit
> version of the libraries in order to build, right?
> 
> Rob

You do need to compile the libraries as per my follow up post.

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