From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Compatibility of binaries built with one version of cygwin with other versions of cygwin
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <551559CA.3010101@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAEKttyhPE0hxqfRb6yFQcfyNRnDASWfMDzwe66eKmVeoPGykw@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/27/2015 2:01 PM, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> Question: if I build an executable/shared library on one version of
> cygwin, is it guaranteed to work on later versions of cygwin, or is
> that not recommended?
>
> I learned the difficult way that building on one version and running
> on an earlier version doesn't work. My binaries are based on C++
> code, so there is a dependency on libstd++ and libgcc_s (using the
> Linux names for these libraries) and that is where I think I was
> getting burned. I don't think it is a problem with cygwin1.dll
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
compatibility is expected forward not backward.
New versions may have additional features that of course are not
available backward.
Regards
Marco
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2015-03-27 13:12 ` Tom Kacvinsky
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