Re: Size of the MonthCalendar
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jun 28, 2013
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I wouldn't even try to run a GUI binary from the year 2000 on an actual Linux System.
I do this all the time without issue.
okay, i will give it a try now. Maybe I'am wrong.
But my experience is that binaries do not work (bcouse of updated libs).
I do not talk about recompiling the sources.
I have Apllixware 4.3.7, i will give it a try.
Andreas
I have not tried Apllixware, so YMMV.
Generally, the updated libraries should be backwards compatible at the binary API level with the older versions.
Of course there are cases where this is not possible. But when this happens, the library generally changes its name and you can have both installed side by side on the same system. E.g. GTK1 and GTK2.
Of course, if you have only GTK2 installed and try to run a binary compiled against GTK1, it won't work. You'd need to install the older libraries to get this to work.
There is an easier way, however: If you have an older system lying around, you can convert the dynamic binary into a static one with http://statifier.sourceforge.net/ and then run the static binary on the newer system.
