FZ3 Static Binaries for Linux

[TheAngryPenguin]

I realize that it's totally possible to build FZ3 from the CVS source, but I would appreciate it if FZ3 was made available for Linux as a Static Binary. Somehow, I doubt that I am alone in this, so please respond to the included poll. Tim's obviously very busy with these projects, so if he won't or doesn't agree to make these static binaries available, I'm sure that someone could do it for him, even if it were on a weekly or milestone basis (as opposed to making something available nightly). Again, please voice your opinion!

[botg]

The latest nightly builds seem to work well on most Linux distributions.

[TheAngryPenguin]

With the 2005-12-23 build (not to mention many builds prior), I get the following error:

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theangrypenguin@replica:~ $ /home/theangrypenguin/Apps/filezilla3/bin/filezilla
/home/theangrypenguin/Apps/filezilla3/bin/filezilla: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is on a laptop running Ubuntu 4.10 (the newer builds of Ubuntu use xorg, which doesn't play nicely with this particular collection of hardware).

If I create a symbolic link from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 to /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6, I get:

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theangrypenguin@replica:~ $ /home/theangrypenguin/Apps/filezilla3/bin/filezilla
/home/theangrypenguin/Apps/filezilla3/bin/filezilla: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4' not found (required by /home/theangrypenguin/Apps/filezilla3/bin/filezilla)
/home/theangrypenguin/Apps/filezilla3/bin/filezilla: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3' not found (required by /home/theangrypenguin/Apps/filezilla3/bin/filezilla)

Again, I know that if I have the right environment configured, it's possible to compile everything from CVS. However, I believe that creating the right environment and building from source will involve more effort than most users will want to put forth, and not having a static binary for the more lazy Linux users will ultimately make FZ3 less accessible.

[botg]

No way I'll provide binaries for outdated systems

[TheAngryPenguin]

Heh -- 4.10 is still officially supported by Ubuntu and will be until June of 2006.

[botg]

Good to know, won't release FZ3 before July then

[eddan]

Good to know, won't release FZ3 before July then

Muhahaha

[Anders]

@TheAngryPenguin you need to update gcc, filezilla is compiled with a version of gcc 3.4 or greater. Which introduces a binary incompatibility with earlier versions of GCC. They are however compatible for instance with later version of GCC such as 4.0.

~ Anders

[Anders]

Heh, I just figured that's probably a lot harder on a distro like ubuntu, not sure what you would do to repair binary incompatibility. Perhaps you can just install 3.4 and it will grab that libary which is what you need.

~ Anders