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Asked: 2026-05-14T01:21:58+00:00

Update: After some more reading I see that this problem is totally general, you

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Update: After some more reading I see that this problem is totally general, you can’t mix architectures in the same process, so 64 bit Java cannot dlopen() a 32 bit library like FMOD. Is there any possible workaround for this, keeping in mind I’m writing my own C interface to the FMOD library?

I need to make a 64-bit dylib on Max OS X because Java Native Access only likes 64-bit libraries on 64-bit machines. The problem is, my C source code dynamically includes FMOD which on Mac only provides 32-bit dylibs. When I try to compile without the -m32 option (since I must output a 64-bit dylib) I get the following error:

    gcc -dynamiclib -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -O3 -fPIC -pthread -o  ../bin/libpenntotalrecall_fmod.dylib ../../src/libpenntotalrecall_fmod.c -lfmodex -L../../lib/osx/

    ld: warning: in /usr/lib/libfmodex.dylib, missing required architecture x86_64 in file
    Undefined symbols:
      "_FMOD_System_CreateSound", referenced from:
          _startPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_Channel_GetPosition", referenced from:
          _streamPosition in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_System_Create", referenced from:
          _startPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_System_PlaySound", referenced from:
          _startPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_Sound_Release", referenced from:
          _stopPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_Channel_IsPlaying", referenced from:
          _playbackInProgress in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_System_Update", referenced from:
          _streamPosition in ccJnlwrd.o
          _startPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_Channel_SetPaused", referenced from:
          _startPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_System_Release", referenced from:
          _stopPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_System_Init", referenced from:
          _startPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_Channel_SetVolume", referenced from:
          _startPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_System_Close", referenced from:
          _stopPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
      "_FMOD_Channel_SetCallback", referenced from:
          _startPlayback in ccJnlwrd.o
    ld: symbol(s) not found
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    make: *** [all] Error 1

Shouldn’t it be possible to get a 64 bit dylib from my source code that dynamically includes 32 bit libraries?!

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  1. Editorial Team

    As you’ve noted, you can’t mix architectures in the same process.

    The workaround is then to have two processes. One of them is a 32 bit “helper” process that links to the 32-bit library and exposes its functions through some IPC mechanism, and the other is the 64-bit Java process linked to your own 64-bit library.

    Your 64-bit library starts up the helper process, and provides a set of functions that it implements by passing requests to the helper process over the IPC mechanism and returning the results. The IPC can be as simple as a pair of anonymous pipes created with the pipe() system call.

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