converting a 64bit .so to 32bit

Question

I have a third party .so that was generated on a 64bit machine. I'd like to use this same .so on a 32bit machine. Anyone know how to do the conversion? I tried:

objcopy "--input-target=elf64-x86-64" "--output-target=elf32-i386" 64bit.so 32bit.so

but I'm still getting "File format not recognized" from gcc. For the record I'm doing this:

gcc -g code.c 32bit.so

which is kinda hack-y but that's ok for now.

Answer 1

You can't.

You need to get 32bit version of this 3rd part library or recompile it from its sources