On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Almar Klein <almar.kl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the quick and clear answers so far. I have two more questions:
You're welcome. >> >> > I want to distribute an application written in python 3.1 that uses >> >> > the >> >> > PyQt4 widget toolkit. I'd like to make the app available to as many >> >> > people >> >> > as possible (in binary form). I've gotten it to freeze on both >> >> > windows >> >> > and >> >> > linux (I don't own a mac). In my experience the windows-frozen apps >> >> > always >> >> > work on windows machines, but I've no clue how well this works in >> >> > Linux. >> >> > Will the binaries work on *any* Linux distribution? Or only on Debian >> >> > derived Linuxes (I'm running Linux Mint myself)? >> >> >> >> On Linux the main issue is glibc which you need to make sure is "as >> >> old as possible" in order to cover most of the distributions out >> >> there. Glibc is backwards compatible but not forwards compatible so >> >> you need to act accordingly. I generally use CentOS 5.x as that is >> >> fairly old and covers most of the distributions in the past few years. >> > >> > So you mean I'd best build the binaries on an old OS? And does this >> > depend >> > on how much "exotic low level stuff" I use in my application, or only >> > how >> > new the version is that is on my system? >> >> The main issue is glibc. Whatever version you are using everyone else >> who will use your package needs to use that version of glibc or a more >> recent one. Everything links to that library so everything stands or >> falls on what version you happen to have installed. Since that package >> is regularly being improved new distributions generally include newer >> versions of glibc, too. > > Ok, fair enough. Would it also be possible to (temporarily) install an old > version of glibc on my current system? Maybe. But I wouldn't do that personally. A virtual machine is far less likely to cause problems. :-) > You said you use CentOS 5.x since it is fairly old. If I check the website > v5.5 is from may 2010, which I don't consider old. All versions below 5.4 > are not available anymore (at least not on the mirror that I checked). Do > you recon that the 5.5 iso old enough or should I download CentOS 4.x? Well, CentOS 5.5 still uses the old version of glibc so even though it was recently released it is still "old". :-) Red Hat is about to release version 6 which will use a newer version of glibc. I don't think version 4 is worth worrying about -- that's WAY too old! Anthony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ cx-freeze-users mailing list cx-freeze-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cx-freeze-users
