[SDL] Embed SDL.dll in the .exe

Charles McGarvey onefriedrice at brokenzipper.com
Fri Sep 28 07:41:03 PDT 2007


On Sep 28, 2007, at 3:50 AM, Andre Krause wrote:

>
> so i strongly vote for static linking!

FYI: Drag 'n drop installation works on Mac OS X without complete  
static linking because applications are really "bundles" or  
directories made to look like files.  So you can dynamic link to  
libraries you put inside the bundle which provides the benefits of  
brain-dead installation and the benefits of dynamic linking  
(including satisfying the LGPL license).

I haven't done a lot of Windows programming, so I don't know how a  
lot of the stuff like this works on that platform, but perhaps a  
similar method could be adopted to handle dynamic libraries?  It sure  
has been nice programming, and the users love it.  Or perhaps this is  
something Microsoft would have to implement?

Anyway... cheers!
charles


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