| Distribution | Linux kernel | Statically linked binary | Official binary (alpha) | Official binary error |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine 3.7 | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ❌ | 5. ELF interpreter not found |
| Arch Linux | 4.17 | ✔️ | ❌ | 1. libtinfo.so.5 not found |
| Centos 6.6 | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ❌ | 3. libgmp.so.10 not found |
| Centos 7.5 | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ❗ | 2. No libtinfo version information available |
| Debian 4 etch | 2.6.18 | ✔️ | ❌ | 1. libtinfo.so.6 not found |
| Debian 5 lenny | 2.6.26 | ✔️ | ❌ | 1. libtinfo.so.6 not found |
| Debian 6 squeeze | 2.6.32 | ✔️ | ❌ | 1. libtinfo.so.6 not found |
| Debian 7 wheezy | 3.2.0 | ✔️ | ❌ | 4. libffi.so.5 not found |
| Debian 9 stretch | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Fedora 26 | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ❌ | 1. libtinfo.so.5 not found |
| Fedora 28 | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ❌ | 1. libtinfo.so.5 not found |
| Gentoo | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ❌ | 1. libtinfo.so.5 not found |
| OpenSuse leap 15.0 | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Slackware 14.2 | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ❌ | 1. libtinfo.so.5 not found |
| Ubuntu 14.04 | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ❗ | 2. No libtinfo version information available |
| Ubuntu 16.04 | 4.10 | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Ubuntu 18.04 | 4.15.0 | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Ubuntu 18.10 (dev) | 4.15.0 🐋 | ✔️ | ❌ | 1. libtinfo.so.5 not found |
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| ✔️ | no error |
| ❗ | some error displayed on start but the binary works correctly |
| ❌ | some error displayed and the compiler does not work * |
| 🐋 | tested in a docker container (ie: with host kernel) |
* some work-arounds like adding some symbolic links manually or installing some compat libs can sometimes allow to run the compiler
error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This occurs when the libtinfo.so.5 shared library is not found. This has mainly two causes:
libtinfois actually part ofncursessources and can be compiled inside or outsidelibncurses. On distributions wherelibtinfois built insidelibncurses, it won't be found and this is why creating a symbolic link tolibncurses.so.5usually fixes the issue.- Some distributions have another version of
libtinfo, usuallylibtinfo.so.6.
/lib64/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by ./elm)
This non-fatal error occurs when the distribution provides a libtinfo.so.5 shared library without symbol versionning while elm has been dynamically linked with a libtinfo.so.5 library that included symbol versionning. The elm binary is still executed, but as symbols versions are not checked, some runtime errors might eventually happen (in practice elm seems to work correctly).
(More precisely, this means that the library doesn't have the VERDEF ELF section while the binary has some version definitions in the VERNEED ELF section for this library that were set during linking).
./error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
If libgmp is already installed, this occurs when the distribution provides a different version.
error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
If libffi is already installed, this occurs when the distribution provides a different version.
./elm: not found
This occurs when the ELF interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 is not found. This typically happens on non-glibc distributions (because ld-linux-* is the glibc dynamic loader).