Meteor tools 3 don't work on "old" OS like Centos 8 (Error: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6)

3.0 migration
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Hello all,

When try to migrate to Meteor 3 on CentOs 8, I’m getting the following error even though the documentation specifies that Meteor is compiled under CentOS 6.4 for compatibility purpose.

Have I misunderstood the documentation (Install | Docs)?

Thanks.

Error: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26’ not found (required by /home/developer/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.3.0.4.aaa58r.y4jxf++os.linux.x86_64+web.browser+web.browser.legacy+web.cordova/mt-os.linux.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/vscode-nsfw/build/Release/nsfw.node)
at Object.Module._extensions…node (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1586:18)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1288:32)
at Module.Mp.load (/tools/static-assets/server/runtime.js:35:31)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1104:12)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1311:19)
at Module.mod.require (/home/developer/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.3.0.4.aaa58r.y4jxf++os.linux.x86_64+web.browser+web.browser.legacy+web.cordova/mt-os.linux.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/@meteorjs/reify/lib/runtime/index.js:30:33)
at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:179:18)
at Object. (/home/developer/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.3.0.4.aaa58r.y4jxf++os.linux.x86_64+web.browser+web.browser.legacy+web.cordova/mt-os.linux.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/vscode-nsfw/js/src/index.js:4:14)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1469:14)
at Module.Mp._compile (/tools/static-assets/server/runtime.js:78:21) {
code: ‘ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED’
}

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I’m not very familiar with that OS. As we update Node, Mongo, and other tools in Meteor, the requirements for native libraries are changing. It’s our mistake to include CentOS 8 compatibility if it doesn’t work. I’ll need to verify in a Virtual Machine.

By the way, is Meteor 2 working on your CentOS 8? Do you have access to a newer version of CentOS? Could you test it? I’ll set up a VM to help, as we may need to update the docs.

What is the exact Meteor 3 version you try?

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It seems that this is a package missing or needing an update ( here shown in 7 also ) and with modification to the version needed, a solution like this might work?

Not necessarily OS incompatibility, just build environment no longer updated by the OS package dependency management as recently. Curious if that fixes it. I had issues like this with alpine versus debian in container image builds as well, and it is often just a build environment modification needed.

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Have you tried developing on other distro, like newest Ubuntu, and then building Docker container with Ubuntu base image, and running that container with Docker at CentOS ?

If it is old hardware, where CPU does not support AVX, that MongoDB 5 and newer requires, it’s possible to run MongoDB at Qemu that supports AVX:

It’s possible to check CPU support for AVX this way:

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CentOS 7 and 8 stream were EOL.

I suggested before to use Rocky Linux when building packages to use a low version glibc:

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