using 32 bit .so with 64 bit perl

doug has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to get ARSperl to work with with the 64 bit perl that came with RHEL5. ARSperl has an XS wrapper to a proprietary .so that the vendor only releases as 32 bit. The ARSperl mailing list indicates that the work around is to compile a 32 bit version of perl, but I'd rather stick with the perl came with RHEL5. Are there any tricks to getting XS to these conversions?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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Re: using 32 bit .so with 64 bit perl by almut (Canon) on Oct 01, 2008 at 19:02 UTC
Unfortunately, you generally can't mix 32-bit and 64-bit code in one process, which means that a 64-bit Perl binary (or the respective XS code) simply isn't able to load a 32-bit shared library. In other words, there is no (or no sensibly easy) way around having to use a 32-bit Perl.	[reply]

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