[Peeweelinux] How to build 6.2 programs, or other ways

[Adi Linden]

As far as I know, the kernel is a static build binary. It does not depend
on any particular libraries at runtime. So it doesn't really matter which
libraries were installed on the system the kernel was build on.

When it comes to applications this is different. It is certainly possible
to build a statically compiled binary using any libraries of your choice
and it will run on PeeWeeLinux. Being statically compiled it won't require
any libraries to be present at runtime.

If you build a dynamically linked library it is advisable to match the
libraries as build time with the libraries at runtime. The binary require
whatever libs is was linked against at runtime.

I hope this makes sense...

Adi

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Barry Gershenfeld wrote:

> I need to write myself a program to let my embedded board
> do control, and so to assure myself success I would need
> to compile it on a RedHat 6.2 system like everything
> else in peeweelinux.  But are there alternatives? Ken
> Emmons has put a 2.4 kernel in his system.  Does this
> cause any problems?  Will everything work like magic
> or is the real problem in the libraries?   And then the
> libraries have to match the kernel....I was able to
> build a 6.2 kernel using egcs, so can I repeat this
> trick on my own program?
>
> The answers, even if negative, would help me understand
> how the parts of the system link together.
>
> My host system is RH7.3
>
> Barry
>
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