Binary compatibility on Linux

[Jordi Sayol]

Al 10/11/12 16:40, En/na Jacob Carlborg ha escrit:
> 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?
> 

Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS is old enough?
You can install/run dmd out of the box on it just installing the appropriate deb package.

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Jordi Sayol