[Bf-committers] request to release/RC1 builders: please keep SDL and other libs statically linked

[erwin at erwincoumans.com]

If possible please keep it statically linked. 

libSDL, libstdc++ and some other libs are not always installed, and it would 
be good if Blender just runs out-of-the-box as much as possible :) 

What about OpenAL and other libs?
Thanks,
Erwin 


Stefan Gartner writes: 

> On Saturday, 30. December 2006 21:21, erwin at erwincoumans.com wrote:
>> Statically linking all those additional libraries would make it easier to
>> run Blender. Perhaps we should provide both a static and a dynamic linked
>> Blender? 
>>
>> I just tried to run Blender 2.43 RC1 in a linux-powerpc environment (PS3)
>> and it fails to find libSDL-1.2.so. 
>>
>> When trying to run the blenderplayer, it also fails with the same
>> libSDL-1.2.so (I though it was just using OpenAL for sound, so it is
>> probably for some option (CD playback?) that I never used)... 
>>
>> Erwin 
>>
> 
> It used to be statically linked against SDL, but assuming SDL is installed on 
> most systems already I changed that. I could make a more static build for rc2 
> or final, though I'm not sure if it's worth it. 
> 
> greetings,
> stefan