On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:41 AM, John Zavgren<j...@zavgren.com> wrote: > Greetings: > I wrote a Glade-3/GTK2/G++ application on a ubuntu machine, and the > application works great. In fact it works so well that my colleagues want to > use it. Ujnfortunately, they are not using ubuntu (and neither was I until I > started developing my GUI. I chose ubuntu because it seemed to support GUI > development.) > > I tried running my app on a Red Hat machine and the app failed because of an > unresolved external reference,,, missing shared object file. > > No big deal. I attempted to statically link my app with the assistance of > "strace", the doctrinaire approach with embedded systems. That opened > pandoras box! The number of references to shared object files was > astounding. > My intuition tells me that there must be a better way to build an > application that will run on more than one Linux machine.
There is. Check out http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/lsb (Or, as a first approximation, build your app on an old version of linux, like Ubuntu 6.06. But lsb is a better way to go if you can do it.) You don't need to create lsb packages; just building with the lsb sdk will make your program more portable. > Is there a simple way to statically link the esoteric aspects of my GUI In general, static linking doesn't work well these days. glibc and several other libraries use dynamic linking at runtime. - Dan _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
