On 4 May 2010 17:27, Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote: >> fpGUI probably depends as well as the fp text mode ide on glibc etc. so >> running on older systems is pure luck. > > This is correct. I did some tests for this when still running SuSE. > Only binaries that do not depend on LibC will run on old linux distros.
Either way, I installed SuSE 9.0 on a spare hard drive. Copied over fpGUI binaries created on Ubuntu 9.10 compiled today, or in the last two months. They ran perfectly and without problems. And as a bonus, Kylix 3 installed without a hitch (something that seldom occurs). :-) Apps included in the test was some fpGUI demos (even one old fpGUI v0.4 demo), the fpGUI UI Designer, DocView etc.. SuSE 9.0 is about 7-8 years old. That's a lifetime for Linux, considering how fast things change in Linux. The other point being that it is a free OS, so nothing prevents users from continuously upgrading as new distro versions are released - no need to be left behind. So Florian and Michael, I would safely say a new binary created with FPC (non-gui or fpGUI based) would run perfectly fine on rather old Linux distros. I found my copy of SuSE 8.0, so will be trying that one next. I should have SuSE 7.x somewhere as well. ;-) And for some proof and for your viewing pleasure, visit the following url. http://opensoft.homeip.net/~graemeg/fpgui-on-suse-9.0.png -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel