Am 10.11.2012 16:40, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
What's the best way to achieve binary compatibility on Linux? For
example, if I compile an application on, say Ubuntu 12.04, it will most
likely not run on any older versions of Ubuntu but it will run on future
versions.
My current approach to solve this is to compile the application in the
oldest version of Ubuntu I can find, in this case 6.x. This is starting
to get a bit problematic:
* The integration with VirtuaBox (I'm running Ubuntu as a guest) is
pretty bad
* DMD won't run of out of the box, I need to compile it. This is also
making DVM basically useless
* I can't clone the dlang repositories due to having a very old version
of git installed
* I can't compile git, I haven't investigated in why but probably due to
the system is too old
Is there some compiler/linker flags I can use when building to make the
executable compatibility with older versions of Linux?
Or is there a better way to solve this?
I guess the right answer is to have everything compiled statically,
especially if you need compatibility across distributions.
--
Paulo
