Apache, PHP and MySQL are all running in 32 bit on a Solaris server
that is 64 bit. The main problem I have is I need 64 bit integers so
I have 2 questions:

If I compile PHP for 64 bit, do I need to compile Apache in 64 bit
also? (My VPS came with everything installed as 32 bit except for the
OS, it is 64 bit. So, ideally, I would not like to have to go through
compiling everything.)

Where would be the best place to look for a precompiled PHP5 for
Solaris 64 bit?

Thanks,
Darren

Darren wrote:
> Apache, PHP and MySQL are all running in 32 bit on a Solaris server
> that is 64 bit. The main problem I have is I need 64 bit integers so
> I have 2 questions:
>
> If I compile PHP for 64 bit, do I need to compile Apache in 64 bit
> also?

I wouldn't have thought so..php output is a character stream fed to
apache..via stdout IIRC.

> (My VPS came with everything installed as 32 bit except for the
> OS, it is 64 bit. So, ideally, I would not like to have to go through
> compiling everything.)
>
> Where would be the best place to look for a precompiled PHP5 for
> Solaris 64 bit?
>
I would just compile your own..but will it give you 64 bit ints?

> Thanks,
> Darren

In article
<fdc9ae81-d494-48d4-ad4c-3b7d5d261bc2@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Darren <djcdude@gmail.com> wrote:

> Apache, PHP and MySQL are all running in 32 bit on a Solaris server
> that is 64 bit. The main problem I have is I need 64 bit integers so
> I have 2 questions:
>
> If I compile PHP for 64 bit, do I need to compile Apache in 64 bit
> also? (My VPS came with everything installed as 32 bit except for the
> OS, it is 64 bit. So, ideally, I would not like to have to go through
> compiling everything.)
>
> Where would be the best place to look for a precompiled PHP5 for
> Solaris 64 bit?
>
> Thanks,
> Darren

You'll need source for everything to compile it into 64-bit. It will
also be slower as memory access for 64-bit applications has a
performance penalty over 32-bit applications.

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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Darren wrote:
>
>> Apache, PHP and MySQL are all running in 32 bit on a Solaris server
>> that is 64 bit. The main problem I have is I need 64 bit integers so I
>> have 2 questions:
>>
>> If I compile PHP for 64 bit, do I need to compile Apache in 64 bit
>> also?
>
> I wouldn't have thought so..php output is a character stream fed to
> apache..via stdout IIRC.

You only "RC" if you're talking about the CGI version of PHP. If you're
using the Apache module (mod_php), you will almost certainly need to
recompile Apache. If you use CGI, you should be able to get away with
using 32-bit Apache with 64-bit PHP.

If your maths is fairly simply (i.e. just some basic addition,
multiplication, etc, but with really big numbers), then you could try
using a PHP class or extension for large numbers in 32-bit PHP. These
basically store numbers in a string and do maths on that. They're a few
orders of magnitude slower than the maths functions built into the CPU,
but if your maths isn't complex, they'll might do the trick.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.bc.php
http://www.icosaedro.it/bigint/
http://www.icosaedro.it/bigfloat/

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Michael Vilain wrote:
> In article
> <fdc9ae81-d494-48d4-ad4c-3b7d5d261bc2@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> Darren <djcdude@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Apache, PHP and MySQL are all running in 32 bit on a Solaris server
>> that is 64 bit. The main problem I have is I need 64 bit integers so
>> I have 2 questions:
>>
>> If I compile PHP for 64 bit, do I need to compile Apache in 64 bit
>> also? (My VPS came with everything installed as 32 bit except for the
>> OS, it is 64 bit. So, ideally, I would not like to have to go through
>> compiling everything.)
>>
>> Where would be the best place to look for a precompiled PHP5 for
>> Solaris 64 bit?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Darren
>
> You'll need source for everything to compile it into 64-bit. It will
> also be slower as memory access for 64-bit applications has a
> performance penalty over 32-bit applications.
>
Surely memory access is FASTER, its disk access that is slower.

On Mar 26, 3:52am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> > Darren wrote:
>
> >> Apache, PHP and MySQL are all running in 32 bit on a Solaris server
> >> that is 64 bit. The main problem I have is I need 64 bit integers soI
> >> have 2 questions:
>
> >> If I compile PHP for 64 bit, do I need to compile Apache in 64 bit
> >> also?
>
> > I wouldn't have thought so..php output is a character stream fed to
> > apache..via stdout IIRC.
>
> You only "RC" if you're talking about the CGI version of PHP. If you're
> using the Apache module (mod_php), you will almost certainly need to
> recompile Apache. If you use CGI, you should be able to get away with
> using 32-bit Apache with 64-bit PHP.
>
> If your maths is fairly simply (i.e. just some basic addition,
> multiplication, etc, but with really big numbers), then you could try
> using a PHP class or extension for large numbers in 32-bit PHP. These
> basically store numbers in a string and do maths on that. They're a few
> orders of magnitude slower than the maths functions built into the CPU,
> but if your maths isn't complex, they'll might do the trick.
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.bc....o.it/bigfloat/
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
> [OS: Linux 2.6.17.14-mm-desktop-9mdvsmp, up 8 days, 11:21.]
>
> Best... News... Story... Ever!
> http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/03/23/hypnotist/

Thanks, I will look at those because my math is not very complex and I
have a feeling that if I attempted to recompile PHP and Apache, I am
not sure that everything would end up working in the end (I am new to
Unix based OS's)