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How to run a C++ executable compiled on a mac with gcc on a digitalocean droplet?

Posted on November 8, 2016

I wrote a c++ pgm and compiled it in console with g++ and have this error: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error



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doing this now actually… thks for answering…

You will need to recompile it on your droplet to be able to run it there. It’s telling you it was compiled to a binary format that it can’t read.

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