I tried following one of the blog posts in order to compile an x86 program on a Debian Wheezy 7.8 x64 box with PureBasic 5.31 x86, but ran into some problems. The IDE launches fine, however at compilation I get many errors looking like this:
Installing the x86 version under a VM would be ok, however it would affect the speed of the compiled program (especially for CPU intensive tasks) and some program benchmarks would be way off. I see that Fred was considering adding a platform type to make ld use i386./urs/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file 'purebasic.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
Could you please add this feature in one of the next versions of PureBasic? It would greatly simplify development and make things less bloated. Thanks.