[Qt-interest] How to do a static linking

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 02/15/2011 07:08 PM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> 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.

If you build on Debian Lenny, you usually get almost everything covered. 
  If you also need to support outdated libc5 system, then an old 
CentOS/RedHat will do, then you get pretty much 100% coverage.