Ok, it’s been a couple of weeks since I posted the 64bit Linux installer for Google Gears. And some people have asked for the diff or a smaller installer. Fair enough. There they are. The directions for compiling your own are simple enough. Here is a cut-n-paste list of directions:
svn co http://gears.googlecode.com/svn/trunk gears cd gears curl http://mah.everybody.org/gears.diff | patch -p0 chmod +x third_party/gecko_1.9/linux/gecko_sdk/bin/xpidl cd gears make
If you look at the diff, you’ll see there is nothing particularly 64bit-ish about it. Its mostly just fixing warnings and declarations. So the real question I have is: Why doesn’t Google offer 64bit builds? (Now, if only I could come up with an Ubuntu package for this…)
Sweet!
A million thank-yous. I’ve currently been relying on other people to build the XPIs and post them on the Internet. Now I can finally build it myself.
I hope your bike trip was awesome.
Why doesn’t Google offer 64bit builds?
The official response is because they would then have to also stress-test the 64-bit builds, which is most definitely true. Apparently it is not currently worth their time to do so.
It seems that by now most things should be defaulting to 64-bit and 32-bit should be the outlier, but that must just be me.