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I'm running gcc 3.x (dont remember exactly) in debian sarge, but I need to compile some linux shared libraries for a game using 2.95 runtime libraries/headers. Is there a way to do this without replacing my newer gcc with old ones?
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I don't belive so, someone correct me if I'm wrong.
c++ code compiled with gcc 2.95 is not binary compatible with code compiled with 3.x.
What you probably could do, is apt-get install gcc-2.95, and then use g++-2.95 to compile...
c++ code compiled with gcc 2.95 is not binary compatible with code compiled with 3.x.
What you probably could do, is apt-get install gcc-2.95, and then use g++-2.95 to compile...
I think they are compatible, anyway, you may also try downloading the gcc-2.95 source and compile it passing --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-2.95 to the configure script.
you'd probably need to adjust paths and enviroment variables for it to work, but I am not sure, never tried it.
you'd probably need to adjust paths and enviroment variables for it to work, but I am not sure, never tried it.
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hmm damn, can different versions of gcc co-exist on linux? if so how do you tell which one is used ?
I've only done it for cross compilation, in those cases the new compiler gets instaled (for example for i386-pc-mingw) at $prefix/i386-pc-mingw and links are created to each binary in $prefix/bin as i386-pc-mingw-gcc,i386-pc-mingw-ld, i386-pc-mingw-gcc, etc, so you use those instead, in theory autotools should be able to cross-compile any source by feeding --target=i386-pc-mingw to the configure script, but in practice, it only works if the author took measures to allow this.
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hmm damn, can different versions of gcc co-exist on linux? if so how do you tell which one is used ?
Debian has several different versions of GCC available and they can co-exist, no problem...
They are all named with a version, so the c++ compiler from gcc 3.3 is /usr/bin/g++-3.3, etc...
Which one is used by default depends on what the /usr/bin/g++ symlink points to...
And 2.95 and 3.x is NOT binary compatible. Which is why you have to compile your shared libraries to run the game...
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