953836 - 64-bit builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Other, enhancement)

Description

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 395 by Michael <Prescience500 AT gmail.com> at 2010-03-20 20:43:00 UTC ***

Add support 64-bit builds of instantbird as 64-bit computers replace 32-bit computers.

Comment 1

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 395 by Michael <Prescience500 AT gmail.com> at 2010-06-25 17:40:40 UTC ***

This will especially be important on Linux where Instantbird won't work on 64-bit systems without installing special 32-bit compatibility packages.

Comment 2

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 395 at 2010-06-25 20:22:42 UTC ***

Firefox 4.0/Mozilla 2.0 will have supported 64bit builds and breakpad now works for them, so we can consider offering 64 bit builds for Instantbird once we use Mozilla 2.0 (probably for Instantbird 0.3).

We would need more build machines and more disk space on the server and I'm not sure yet if the benefits are worth the costs, but we will consider it.

Comment 3

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 395 by Michael <Prescience500 AT gmail.com> at 2010-06-25 23:58:22 UTC ***

Hmm...I hadn't considered monetary costs and what not. Maybe put some instructions somewhere on how 64-bit Linux users can get the compatibility layer until Gecko or libpurple drops 64-bit support or until 64-bit computing becomes sufficiently dominant.

In Ubuntu's distros, all they would need to do is use Synaptic or kpackagekit to install ia32-libs. From the command line:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

I'm not sure about with other non-Debian based distros.

Comment 4

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 395 at 2010-06-26 10:32:21 UTC ***

Isn't ia32-libs installed by default on Ubuntu 64bits? We can add a mention of it in the FAQ on the website.
Even better would be to have Instantbird packaged by default for Ubuntu and Debian of course.

Comment 5

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 395 by Michael <Prescience500 AT gmail.com> at 2010-06-26 16:24:54 UTC ***

Definitely. :) Actually, I'm using Kubuntu, and I know Kubuntu does not come with ia32-libs. Before I switched to Kubuntu, I tried Ubuntu and I don't think it came with ia32-libs. It's been a little while though.

Comment 6

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 395 at 2011-07-19 13:31:49 UTC ***

Just wanted to point out that 1.0 has 64-bit Linux contributed builds (i.e. they are UNSUPPORTED) available at http://ftp.instantbird.org/instantbird/releases/1.0/contrib/

Comment 7

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

We have 64-bit nightlies now!