He just isn't a Linux guy, and I didn't know enough to advise him.
-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Mueller <a...@othello.ch> To: brandonshw <brandon...@aol.com> Sent: Wed, Jul 20, 2011 9:32 am Subject: Re: Fwd: Trying to Link Statically to Libcrypto Brandon, Quoting brandon...@aol.com: Although my current orders are to make a portable executable, ell, the problem is that there is no such thing as a portable xecutable in the Linux world. Such a thing may exist for a single losed platform, like Windows. But it doesn't work in the open orld. The problem starts with the definition. To what systems hould it be portable? Alle Linux systems (with the C-library as he API, that would break because there are different C-Libraries)? ll Linux systems with the same C-library? Same kernel configuration? The last such experiment I witnessed that failed spectacularly as RSA trying to link there SecureID server software statically or Solaris (which is especially nonsensical because Sun guaranteed pward compatiblity, and it really worked, binaries compiled on ome Solaris release would work on later releases too). It was nteresting to see how this very expensive software was just ompletely broken by a patch installation, and there was really othing the customer could do about it. That was in the 1990s. Whoever asked for the "portable executable" had his ideas about oftware probably from the 1980s. It didn't work back then either. Best regards Andreas -- rof. Dr. Andreas Mueller ndreas.muel...@othello.ch ubental 53, 8852 Altendorf oice: +41 55 4621481 Fax/Data: +41 55 4621482 http://www.eurocketry.org/forum/german/viewtopic.php?p=15049#15049 ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keweeQdMAFM
