I successfully ran self-contained .net-core 3 apps on Linux, but if I am trying to run on AIX it fails:
bash: ./CoreConsole: cannot execute binary file: Cannot run a file that does not have a valid format.
I know AIX is unix operating system, but does anyone managed to run self-contained .net-core apps on it?
To run executable on AIX you need few things:
Application which is writen for AIX (propper AIX executable format)
Application which is compiled for POWER processors
Application which use AIX libraries
If one of them is missing you have no chance. The only exceptions are shell files, but you should be aware utilities, used by shell script may have different options
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I'm writing scripts to automate some task to be executed from windows machine to remote ubuntu server, which uses putty-tools like plink.exe, pscp.exe and psftp.exe.
My python program is able to run successfully but I'm trying to build a single independent standalone file which can be run in another PC even if that PC do not have these putty tools available.
I'm using below commands
python -m nuitka --enable-plugin=tk-inter --windows-disable-console --onefile --standalone my_program.py
I'also found related question here but it was not answered
Bundle third party .exe in Python code and produce another portable .exe
Can someone please help me on this.
Fortunately I found answer for my question by reading the nuitka user manual, we need to use one of the below format based on the requirement. In my case I used second one.
# This will find a file near your onefile.exe
open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]), "user-provided-file.txt"))
# This will find a file inside your onefile.exe
open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "user-provided-file.txt"))
And while packing my command become something like below,here it will include all the files available in source directory to target directory in "onefile.exe"
python -m nuitka --enable-plugin=tk-inter --windows-disable-console --onefile
--include-data-dir=<source>=<target> --standalone my_program.py
I want to execute a Linux binary from a QT application running on W10.
In QT we have QProcess to launch additional processes. However, since my binary is for Linux, I've thought of two possible approaches:
Running the binary in a container (i.e.: Docker, Kubernetes, Singularity...).
Executing the binary through WSL (Ubuntu) bash.
In any case, the QT application should initiate the process (the container or the bash) and, in turn, this process should launch my binary.
I've been searching on the web and I could not find something related, what makes me think that it will be difficult. For this reason, I am posting the question in order to know the viability of the proposed approaches.
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It looks like the WSL is easier, the problem is that the user has to have install ed it. Apart from requiring the sudo password when installing new software via apt-get.
The binary that I have to execute only exists for Linux, and let's say that cross-compiling is dismissed because of its complexity. Furthermore, this application needs CGAL, BOOST, MPI, among other pieces of software.
If you want to go with WSL, you can just run wsl myLinuxProgram --options.
Using WSL is the easiest way I believe as the current directory (PWD), is the current one i.e. the same as the PWD of your Qt app.
You can read Microsoft documenation for more info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/interop
If your linux binary depends on a lots of things, I really suggest you use docker for windows. Then, you have chance to pre-build an own docker image which put all dependency software also the linux binary you need to run in it.
Of course, to let your customer to use it, you should put it to dockerhub, register an account for yourself.
Then, the solution is simple: let the QT application to call docker run to setup a container base on your own image, execute it, and also let the linux binary to write the log or others to the bind mount volume among linux container & windows. After it run, the QT application fetch the linux binary output from this shared folder.
Finally, I give a minimal workable example for your reference:
Suppose the shared folder between windows & linux container is: C:\\abc\\log_share, it will mapped to linux container as /tmp folder. Of course you need to allow volume share by right click the docker icon in windows tray area & choose settings, like described here
Simplify the windows application as bat file, and simplfy the docker image as ubuntu, you should use your own prebuilt docker image with all dependency in it:
win_app.bat:
ECHO OFF
::New a shared folder with linux container
RD /s/q C:\\abc\\log_share > NUL 2>&1
MKDIR C:\\abc\\log_share
::From windows call docker to execute linux command like 'echo'
echo "Start to run linux binary in docker container..."
docker run -it -v C:\\abc\\log_share:/tmp ubuntu:16.04 bash -c "echo 'helloworld' > /tmp/linux_log_here.txt"
::In windows, get the log from shared bind mount from linux
echo "Linux binary run finish, print the log generated by the container..."
type C:\\abc\\log_share\linux_log_here.txt
Simplify the linux binary just as echo command in linux, the output things should be all write to shared directory:
echo 'helloworld' > /tmp/linux_log_here.txt
Now, execute the bat file with command win_app.bat:
C:\abc>win_app.bat
C:\abc>ECHO OFF
"Start to run linux binary in docker container..."
"Linux binary run finish, print the log generated by the container..."
helloworld
You can see the windows application already could fetch things(here is helloworld) which generated by linux binary from docker container.
I'm using qt-opensource-windows-x86-mingw492-5.5.0 on two different machines.
My problem is when it comes to copying files after the build using the following command:
copyfiles.commands += #call xcopy /S /Y /I $${THIRDPARTY_PATH}\\ffmpeg\\Windows\\* $${DESTDIR_WIN}\\debug
My first machine has Visual Studio 2013 but i'm using mingw. This one properly uses the copyfiles.
On my second machine I dont have Visual Studio and when I run the build I get the following errors:
/usr/bin/sh: #call: command not found
I'm not sure why the same Qt install gives two different solutions. I looked at the build steps of the project and both project are the same.
Any ideas?
Your problem is most likely that you have a 'sh.exe' in your PATH on the second machine.
When generating Makefile's, qmake tries to be clever and determines whether it's running from Windows command line (cmd.exe), or from the Unix/Cygwin shell (sh.exe) by checking whether 'sh.exe' is in the current PATH. If it thinks it is running in a Unix shell it well generate a Makefile meant for mingw32-make, otherwise a Makefile meant for nmake.
This test is unfortunately pretty bogus nowadays, mostly because sh.exe is in part of the 'bin' directory of git on Windows. If this is your problem, and you're using git, just make sure that you include the 'cmd' directory of git instead.
On my PC I'm using this bat script to compile my JavaScript project:
https://github.com/ChristianDen/fx.js/blob/master/build/compile.bat
And it works great!
Now, I want to run that on Mac using Terminal.
So far, I've renamed the script with an .sh extensions and made sure Java is installed.
I don't have a lot of Mac experience, but it won't run.
Have you any experience with this?
I'm trying to build an application from source in windows that requires some Unix tools. I think it's the apparently standard ./configure; make; make install (there's no INSTALL file). First I tried MinGW but got confused that there was no bash, autoconf, m4, or automake exes in \bin. I'm sure I missed something obvious but I installed Cygwin anyways just to move forward. For some reason when I run
sh configure.sh
I get:
platform unix
compiler cc
configuration directory ./builds/unix
configuration rules ./builds/unix/unix.mk
My OS has identity problems. Obviously the makefile is all wrong since I'm not on unix but win32. Why would the configure script think this? I assume it has something to do with Cygwin but if I remove that I can't build it at all. Please help; I'm very confused.
Also is it possible to build using MinGW? What's the command for bash and is mingw32-make the same as make? I noticed they're different sizes.
Everything is fine. When you are inside CygWin, you are basically emulating an UNIX. sh runs inside CygWin, and thus identifies the OS correctly as Unix.
Have a look at GCW - The Gnu C compiler for Windows
Also, you might be interested in this help page, that goes into some detail about the minimal system (MSYS), such as how to install, configure et. c.
That should help you get bash, configure and the rest to work for MinGW as well.
From the Cygwin home page
Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts:
A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel.
Since configure is using the Cygwin environment, it is interacting against the emulation layer and so it is just like it's working on a Unix environment.
Have you tried building the application and seeing if it works?