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Asked: 2026-05-24T10:17:15+00:00

I have a pretty simple C program that does some cryptographic calculations using only

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I have a pretty simple C program that does some cryptographic calculations using only standard library functions.

I will be running the program on Ubuntu (10.04, 32 bit) and compiled it on OS X 10.6 using cc with the -m32 flag. When I tried to run it on Ubuntu I got the error message “cannot execute binary file.”

When I compile it on Ubuntu it runs fine.

Is there any easy way to compile code on OS X into a binary that will run on Ubuntu? If not, what are the differences that cause the binary to be incompatible?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m afraid you can’t given the minimum portability of gcc.

    Of course you can build a cross compiler like this but I’ll suggest you to use and compile with an ubuntu virtual machine.

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