Linux compiler question

[rob...@hotmail.com]

Hello all,

For creating the Linux (and MacOS) compiler I am using Virtual Box on my Windows machine. Some time ago a did an upgrade of Virtual Box and that gave issues. For example I can no longer use the MacOS since it does not work anymore. Since the number of MacOS users is limited, and setting up this environment for the MacOS took a lot of time, I will not make a new MacOS versions of the but will keep the makefile for the MacOS so that others can create it.

But the question is about something else. For the Linux compiler I am switching to Ubuntu running on my Windows PC using WSL2. This integrates better with Windows. The problem is, however, that when I create the Linux compiler now, it does not run under Linux Mint since it cannot find a library that is dynamically loaded and that version of that library is not on my Linux Mint installation.

So I have 2 questions:

1) Did you experience any issues with the Linux compiler, that is, did you had to upgrade or install any library to get it running on your machine?

2) I can solve the issue by linking all libraries with the application (option -static). This works but this doubles the size of the compiler to about 1.3 Mbyte (it is normally around 550 kbytes). I do not think it will slow things down but it will prevent any problems mentioned in 1)

BTW. I am not a Linux guru so maybe some of you have other suggestions.

Please share your thoughts. Thanks.

Kind regards,

Rob

[Oliver Seitz]

Hi Rob,

I'm a linux user, no guru either... I wouldn't mind static linking. You can't do it for big graphical applications like GIMP, VLC or LibreOffice, the executables would blow up to gigabytes. But for a compiler, it costs a few bytes and saves a lot of trouble.

The alternative would be to distribute package manager files (like .deb or .rpm), which include information on dependencies. But that's the hard way to make a user happy. 

Statically linked executables are quick and convenient for everyone :-)

Greets,

Kiste

Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2021, 19:21:11 MEZ hat rob...@hotmail.com <rob...@hotmail.com> Folgendes geschrieben:

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[Rob CJ]

Hi Kiste,

Thanks for the response. I think I will indeed go for linking the libraries to prevent any issues with older library versions which I am now experiencing.

The rpm solution is for guru's I think and as mentioned, that is not me 🙂.

For later ... Happy New Year (and next year a new Jallib release)!

Kind regards,

Rob

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