"Jacob Carlborg" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 2011-05-18 06:35, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >> Sounds cool, but dvm-0.2.0-linux-32 is just giving me "Illegal >> instruction" >> on Kubuntu 10.04 x86-32. And I don't see any instructions for how to >> build >> it anywhere in the source tree or on the homepage. > > Ok, strange. I built the tool on Ubuntu 11.04, maybe it's too new. How can > I build it to work on as many platforms as possible? The runtime > dependencies are just the same as a regular C application and zlib. >
You know, I'm far from a Linux expert, but making compatible linux binaries seems to be quite a nightmare. In fact, I just recently went through hell myself trying to figure out how to compile a Hello World CGI app on my linux system and have it actually work on another linux system. You can follow my fun-filled adventures through it with these discussions: digitalmars.D.learn: "D CGI test: linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory" (2011/04/25) digitalmars.D.learn: "Linux: How to statically link against system libs?" (2011/04/26) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1740277 But the bottom line seems to be: Linux is in a bigger DLL hell than windows has ever been, and I don't think *anyone* actually knows how to do it. In my case, I ended up just installing an older version of linux in a VM and compiling inside that (CentOS 4, largely because I needed to be able to run on a CentOS server that wasn't happy with my Kubuntu 10.04 executables). The resulting binaries did work on my Kubuntu 10.04 machine, too, so I guess the trick is to just compile on the oldest machine you can. Go figure: All the focus everyone puts on updating to newer versions, and it ends up best to stick with the older versions - not because the older ones were better, but just *because* they're older. Meh. Anyway, pardon the rant :/ You'd think there'd be a way to compile in a backwards-compatible way on linux, but I'm getting the impression that if it's possible, no one actually knows how. > Added build instructions at the bottom of: https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm > Thanks :) I think I'm almost there. I've been using D2/Phobos/RDMD for the past year or so (plus my usual machine is a windows box), so I had a lot of setting up to do, but I think I've almost got it now. When I do, I'll post the final binary in case it helps anyone else (I can only make a 32-bit binary though).
