Re: IUP in Phix
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) May 17, 2024
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Hey @petelomax, I'm fiddling with Phix and Hypatia in Linux. I was attempting to install the IUP libraries from https://sourceforge.net/projects/iup/files/3.31/Linux%20Libraries/ but Phix wasn't seeing where the installer was putting them, or so it seemed. Where does Phix look? The install was putting everything under /usr which seemed odd to me at the time and still does.
Unfortunately, Linux comes with its own unique brand of DLL Hell since various distributions ship a many different versions of core system libraries.
You'll notice the IUP developers target specific Linux kernel versions: 5.4, 5.15, etc. That seems strange, right? Well it turns out that's a red herring.
But what they ought to be targeting is the platform's glibc version, because that is where the compatibility issues truly lie.
Are you perhaps running Ubuntu 22.04 and/or using Windows Subsystem for Linux? If you downloaded the "Linux515" package try using the "Linux54" package instead.
-Greg
