Axel Freyn wrote: > You can just install different versions of gcc in parallel > on the same Linux box, and the compile using > libstdc++.so.5 and libstdc++.so.6 on the same machine. > > Another possibility is that you distribute the adequate version of > libstdc++.so together with your compiled programm, and use the > environment-variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to tell the linker where to find > the library. E.g using bash, the command > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./program > will execute the program "program", and search (in addition to the > default locations) in the directory ./lib for libraries. If you store > there libstdc++.so.6, it should work on all machines. Very interesting! Potentially this solves my problem. So I would just distribute three versions of the library: 1) Mac OS X 2) Linux ia32 (together with libstdc++.so.5 from old RedHat) 3) Linux amd64 (together with libstdc++.so.5 from old RedHat) Regardless of whether the user already have libstdc++.so.5, it sounds like setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH would make this idea work. Hmm, how about kernel version number? If I just grab libstdc++.so.5 from one of the older Linux distro, would it be guaranteed to work even for users with newer Kernel versions? Thanks!
