Hi, compilation of PaleMoon on a P4 (32bits) takes lots of time and i want to known if i can speed up the job under an x86_64 arch by cross-compiling.. I've a core-i5 here running Slack64-15.0. How can i proceed? Latest compilation of PaleMoon-31.1.1 took about ~ 20h /o\ Thanks

I am not familiar with compilation of PaleMoon, but maybe it would be possible to cross compile for 32 bit on Slackware64 if you have multilib installed. To do this you would have to make sure that the flag "-m32" is passed to gcc. Depending on the level of support for this in existing configuration scripts and Makefiles it might be tricky. If you are lucky, it might be enough to do "export CFLAGS=-m32" before running "./configure".

Your core-i5 is probably capable of running a virtual machine. If you install something like qemu, you can install a 32 bit Slackware in a virtual machine. That virtual machine will get good CPU performance if the intel_kvm module is loaded and qemu is started with "--enable-kvm". Compiling in a 32 bit installation in a virtual machine is not cross compiling, but it might be the easiest way to solve your problem.

Above are two different ways forward, depending on your configuration and the functionality of PaleMoon I hope that you will find at least one of these options easy enough.

regards Henrik

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You can do that for sure with multilib installed. I never tried using 32bit packages prepared in 64bit system. You may also create a 32bit chroot on 64bit system. It may work better. Have a look at the below wiki page for how to create 32bir chroot and compile packages.
https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:ge...ackware_chroot

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Ok, thanks for your replys guys