asterisk users - Sep 2009 - No 64 bit binary for Fax for Asterisk

Hi,

Last night I was working on trying to get Fax for Asterisk installed.

I followed all the instructions, but noted that the download selector 
only provider an X86 32 Bit binary.

The machine I'm using is:

2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 17:46:45 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Consequently, on load it presents an error:

[Sep 12 10:25:35] WARNING[31306]: loader.c:368 load_dynamic_module: 
Error loading module 'res_fax.so': /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/res_fax.so:
wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

Is there any plan to provide a 64 bit binary for my architechture?

I've installed the ia32-libs package as well, but no success.

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Matt Riddell wrote:
> Consequently, on load it presents an error:
> 
> [Sep 12 10:25:35] WARNING[31306]: loader.c:368 load_dynamic_module: 
> Error loading module 'res_fax.so':
/usr/lib/asterisk/modules/res_fax.so:
> wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
> 
> Is there any plan to provide a 64 bit binary for my architechture?
> 
> I've installed the ia32-libs package as well, but no success.
There is a plan, but it will probably be at least another 60 days before
such modules are available for testing; it's unfortunate that the FAX
protocol stack that is used in Fax For Asterisk is not natively 64-bit
clean, but we're working on improving it. As you've found, you can't
load it into a copy of Asterisk that was compiled as a 64-bit binary...
your only choices are to learn how to cross-compile to produce 32-bit
binaries on your 64-bit system, or just install the 32-bit flavor of
your distribution.

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Matt Riddell <lists at venturevoip.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last night I was working on trying to get Fax for Asterisk installed.
>
> I followed all the instructions, but noted that the download selector
> only provider an X86 32 Bit binary.
>
> The machine I'm using is:
>
> 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 17:46:45 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Others of us have had pretty good experiences with ordinary 64-bit
SendFax() and ReceiveFax(), that is, the modules you get from
app_fax.c that are standard in 1.6 asterisk if you use an asterisk
with native fax support configured and enabled. These do not suffer
from the problem you have described.