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When I try to run V-REP 3.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 I'm greeted with the following error:
On Ubuntu 14.04, my GCC version is 4.8.4 -- according to GCC official docs, I would need at least GCC 5.1.0 to provide a libstdc++.so that supports GLIBCXX_3.4.21. A few questions/comments:

• Are there actual system requirements for V-REP documented somewhere? Is there some way I could know that I need a system library built using GCC 5.1 or newer to run V-REP?

• V-REP bundles many already-compiled shared libraries. Why does it not include standard C++ libraries? Would there be any harm in bundling all of the *.so files in the Linux releases?

• V-REP 3.5.0 works fine on an Ubuntu 16.04 machine I have (which uses GCC 5.4.0). Since both machines are the same architecture, I copied the 16.04 libstdc++.so.6 file into the V-REP directory on the 14.04 machine, and everything started to work fine (because the vrep.sh script modifies the LD_LIBRARY_PATH env var). Maybe just bundling that library is acceptable?

If you cannot upgrade to Ubuntu 16, I guess you have two solutions available:
- upgrade your GCC to a more recent version (there are PPAs out there with newer GCC versions)
- compile V-REP yourself on your Ubuntu 14.04 box: in that case it will probably work also with the old compiler.

Thanks for the advice. I'm sure you are correct that both workarounds you mentioned would fix the issue. My workaround fixed the issue as well.