Befaco Announments Thread

[marc_boule (Marc Boulé)]

Hi, although this is an old comment by Vortico, it might be of use here:

Rack development blog

As some of you know, in order to produce a Linux plugin build that works on all Linux distros supported by Rack, you must compile against glibc 2.23 and libstdc++ 5.4.0, which is what Ubuntu 16.04 uses. This is because the ABIs of the GNU implementations of the C and C++ standard library change every few years. Previously the only way to correctly do this is to use Ubuntu 16.04 (and thus an old version of GCC) for building plugins, either in a virtual machine, Docker container, or installed on …