Comment 15 for bug 153386

Hi, topics about compiling and packing the application can be found in the readme in sources' package.
About compiling onb 64 bit issue, PeaZip uses this library http://home.netsurf.de/wolfgang.ehrhardt/index.html
which provides cryptographic, hash and crc functions: some parts are written in ASM for performance reasons, and only in some cases are available pure high level language counterparts.
I did not succeeded in compiling those ASM functions on 64 bit Lazarus/FreePascal compiler, they should either been rewritten to be fully compatible with x86-64 ASM or either rewritten in Object Pascal to ensure portability.
Otherwise, PeaZip needs ia32-libs as requirement to run on 64 bit systems, but of course I could not package such a big and complex library in the generic packages (not targeting a specific distribution/version) I provide in DEB, RPM and TGZ formats.

About PeaZip code being a bit messy, I know, one of the reason is that Lazarus/FPC is a relatively recent project and is being actively developed. When I started writing PeaZip 6 years ago the IDE was a lot different and PeaZip grew up finding its way in what that wonderful IDE was able to offer as it improved by Lazarus/FPC staff version after version.
They did a great work in developing a really astounding IDE as Lazarus is today, but of course working on what is itself a work in progress requires some workarounds, and version after version part of the development is finding non optimal code and find what Lazarus offers to make things better / simpler today.