[Qt-interest] How to do a static linking

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 15.02.11 17:18:12, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
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> 15.02.2011, 17:09, "Karl Ruetz" <karl.ruetz at sototech.com>:
> > When you say "other systems" do mean other Linux Distributions?
> > If so, you can still dynamically link (providing the Linux kernel version matches and you are not trying to go from a 64bit system to a 32bit system.) and distribute the necessary shared objects.
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> Kernel version is not so important (of course 2.4.x is not compatible with 2.6.x, but minor version generally doesn't matter)
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> Much more important is glibc version - software built agains old version can run on new, but not vice versa.
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> To get truly redistributable Linux binaries, I'd recommended to build them on system with reasonably old glibc (e.g., CentOS 5)
> and distribute them with bundled Qt libraries

That does not really help anymore. There are distro's out there that don't
ship a libc5 anymore and even if they do the users always need to install
it manually. The only way to get redistributable linux binaries is to build
them on a couple of different systems+compilers so you can provide suitable
binaries for varying systems.

Andreas

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