Copying a Procedure Library

[ron]

Linux 7.4 -- OE 11.7.18

The system I work on has Linux servers with Progress DBs and (classic) AppServers on Windows that connect to the Linux servers.

The exact-same program code set resides on both Linux and Windows, so when compiles occur on Linus the new compiled code-set is copied to the AppServers. That process works fine.

I am considering introducing Procedure Libraries ( which I have previously used on another system ). Progress documentation has several references to setting-up and using Procedure Libraries but I have not found a reference that answers this question:

Can a Procedure Library created on Linux be copied to a Windows AppServer and used?

Ron.

 

[Stefan]

Pretty sure the answer is yes. We do it the other way round, pls created on windows are (also) deployed to Linux.

 

[TomBascom]

We create our prolibs on Linux and deploy them on Windows.

The prolib format is portable across platforms. R-code compiled on Linux will run on Windows (assuming the same OE version). Windows r-code that uses GUI features will not run on Linux. In both cases references to external DLL calls will throw runtime errors if the referenced DLL does not exist.

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

I've done this in the past. It works, as Tom points out, if the r-code in the PLs doesn't use any incompatible OS-specific features (e.g. assuming a GUI library is in the propath in a tty environment).

 

[ron]

Thank you very much ... the Progress code contains no GUI stuff; all GUI is handled through APIs.