Re: [Bontz-team] static linking

[Owen Swerkstrom]

d'oh, i forgot.  I'll have to wait 'til i get home ...
again.  :^)


--- Chuck <address@hidden> wrote:
> well the reason i thought of static linking is
> because  i wanted to send the
> binary to someone and i doubt they had all the sdl
> libs required.
> he was interested in bontz and so i was going to try
> to show him the stupid
> little demo.
> 
> this person is a cs person, but not much of a linux
> user.
> 
> btw did you get a chance to see the demo?
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Owen Swerkstrom" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:17 PM
> Subject: [Bontz-team] static linking
> 
> 
> > Good question...  No, I don't know how to do a
> static
> > link to sdl_image or _mixer.  The documentation at
> > http://jcatki.no-ip.org/SDL_image/ doesn't discuss
> > static linking, and a quick google search didn't
> turn
> > up anything fruitful for me either.  Not that
> we'll
> > have to worry about distributing static binaries
> for
> > some time, until we actually get something worth
> > showing off to unwashed masses.  But I'll keep my
> eyes
> > open for any such information.  Compared to the
> > images, music, video etc that we'll have all
> packed
> > into bontz tarballs as game demos, alphas, betas
> etc
> > eventually get done, sdl_image and _mixer are
> pretty
> > small, so if we're worried about people having to
> get
> > them separately we could put copies right in with
> our
> > tarball, hell we could include SDL itself, and
> during
> > our "./configure && make" process we could have it
> > check and build anything that's missing.
> > ...
> > ...not that that has anything to do with your
> > question.  Hah.  that's the trouble with these
> lists,
> > you can't interactively smack me and tell me to
> shut
> > up when i ramble.
> >
> > > any ideas on how to statically link the binary?
> > > i think i could do it if it were just the base
> SDL
> > > libs, but the image and
> > > mixer libs are causing me trouble
> >
> >
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