Trying to run standalone (headless) on Linux (Ubuntu) - failed at first hurdle

[Stephen Barncard]

Hi Ben,
Did you make the standalone on mac or win and  zip the file before
uploading ?
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Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
mixstream.org


On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 6:50 AM Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

>
> I'm trying to develop an app which will run headless on Linux (actually in
> a
> docker container). I've done this before... so long ago that I can't
> remember... with an earlier version of this app. Normally I run this on
> Mac
> and Windows.
>
> So (under LiveCode 9.6.6) I simply checked the Linux 64 option in the
> Standalone builder, built the app, transported the folder with the binary
> "MyApp", "Externals" folder, and "revsecurity.so" to the Docker container,
> and
> tried to launch it:
>
> > # ./MyApp -ui
> > ./MyApp: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.1: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Does this mean that I
> need to
> do something different in how I build the app, or install something
> different
> in the environment?
>
> (The container is running Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS).
>
> TIA,
>
> Ben
>
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