Hi Przemek, Thank you for taking the time to provide such a detailed and complete explanation. Cheers, Barry.
Przemyslaw Czerpak-2 wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Jan 2009, Barry Jackson wrote: > > Hi Barry, > >> I have now built my small Linux application using xhgtk front end and >> hbtpathy for the com functions - >> it works fine - just like my Xbase++ version in Windows - I am really >> impressed with Harbour! >> It also builds with >> hbmk hdvr -lhbtpathy -xhgtk //Much easier than my 3 step approach! >> It produces a 40kB executable which runs on this machine. >> Question, what other files do I need to deploy to another machine that >> has >> no Harbour installed to enable it to run there? Is there a tool to do >> this? > > Such executable file uses shared harbour.so and xhgtk.so libraries > and you should install them on destination machine. If you are using > RPM based distribution then I suggest to create RPMs for Harbour and > XHGTK and then install xhgtk-*.<arch>.rpm and harbour-lib-*.<arch>.rpm. > Both contains above shared libraries. > You can also create static binaries using -static hb* script parameters. > In such case the Harbour and xHarbour libraries will be linked with your > application. Anyhow still other system and GTK libraries will be linked > dynamically so you will need compatible libraries installed in destination > system. You can also use -fullstatic parameter which eliminates this > problem and create fully static binaries if you have static version of > used libraries installed. Unfortunately GTK does not provide static > libs so in this case it will not work. Also static binaries using some > system functionality may not be well portable. If you want to reduce > the problem with coping binaries between systems then the easiest way > is creating shared binaries as you have now and distribute them with > used shared libraries (harbour.so and xhgtk.so in this case). > Your compiled .prg code or .c code using Harbour API should not have > any other external references so even if harbour.so and/or xhgtk.so > cannot be installed on destination system then it will be enough to > download valid binary libraries for this system or rebuild them from > source code without touching your application. > > best regards, > Przemek > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list > Harbour@harbour-project.org > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using--contrib-hbtpathy-fuctions-in-Linux-tp21339751p21371348.html Sent from the Harbour - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
