32 64 bit problems with eclipse cdt on ubuntu

Question

Below is the error I get when I  run a build from eclipse with the latest version of IDE on my Ubuntu 10.10, 64-bit version.

make all 

g++ -o HelloWorld2 main.o 

/usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file `main.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output

/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Invalid operation

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make: *** [HelloWorld2] Error 1

Can anyone tell me how to get Eclipse to launch the 64-bit version or how to make Eclipse compile 32-bit binaries? 

Answer 1

You can try to follow these steps:

1. Right-click on the project

2. Go to properties 

3. Find C/C++ Build

4. Settings ---> Binary Parsers tab 

5. Verify if Elf Parser is checked. 

If you want to verify the class of your binary file, run the command below:

readelf -h myBinary.o

You can refer to this website to run 32-bit binary here 

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