Need Help compiling 32 bit on 64 bit Linux

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Hi. Im kind of a noob to Linux so dont be afraid to point out obvious mistakes

Im trying to compile an application on my Dreamhost account (which uses 64-bit Debian apparently), but the application must be 32-bit.

I found the -m32 flag to tell gcc to make it 32 bit, but I'm still missing something else because its not working. Its not just a simple gcc call, but a rather large makefile so I may have added the -m32 to the wrong place, or maybe to not enough places. I added the flag to the CFLAGS variable like so:

CFLAGS = -m32 -g -I../src -pthread -Wall -Dx86_l1 -fPIC

but still when I try to make, I get a bunch of errors like this:

i386 architecture of input file `rlmgenkeys.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
i386 architecture of input file `rlm.a(rlm_authenticate.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
i386 architecture of input file `rlm.a(rlm_malloc.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output

So I dont know if my -m32 flag actually did anything. However the .o and .a files came already inside the tar file I got so I dont know how that works. Should they work for both 32-bit and 64-bit, or should there be a different package for each architecture (there isnt, theres only 1 package it seems)

I hope i was clear enough, thanks.

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http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html