Question

I am trying to deploy my application from development environment to users’ computer, but I have some issues.

First, I compile and run it on my development computer (higher version Ubuntu11.04):

Ubuntu11.04$ make
Ubuntu11.04$ ./MyApp
Program runs okay.

Then I copied the binaries MyApp to two lower-version machines (users’ computer):

Ubuntu10.04$ ./MyApp
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by ./MyApp)

Ubuntu8.04$ ./MyApp
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by ./MyApp)
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by ./MyApp)

However, if I compile the source code on Ubuntu10.04, and run it:

Ubuntu10.04$ make
Ubuntu10.04$ ./MyApp
Program runs okay.

What should I do with this? When I compile it in development environment, how can I set the version number of the used library? I’m not directly using GLIBCXX, I think it’s being used implicitly somewhere in my project.

Thx a million.

Peter

Answer 1

Did you see Link with an older version of libstdc++

I have never installed an older version of g++, but I have included a libstdc++.so in my release and that has worked for me. Best solution I have seen is get your development stuff to work on the oldest possible system. We compile some stuff on Red Hat 9 and it work on everything, but it can be any major issue building on old machines as you say.