Re: [AD] Distributing Allegro binary shared objects for Linux

[Kirk Black <runesabre@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The product/service I'm building is a monthly
subscription MMO product like UO, EQ, WoW, DAOC, etc. 
It's not a standalone product where one can choose to
be out of date if they like and get the latest version
when they get a chance.  The client files have to be
kept in sync with what the game servers expect in
order to play.

In order for me to properly support my product and
enhance it on a regular basis I have to have the
direct ability to update it completely and
automatically without disrupting my player's ability
to connect and play.

It's relatively straight forward to accomplish for
Windows and Mac thanks to Allegro's cross-platform
ability and Window's/Mac's more standardized platform.
 Linux is proving to be a real pain with it's myriad
of distributions.

--- Peter Hull <peterhull90@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Would it not be better to use one of the existing
> packaging systems
> like .deb? I think you could specify dependent
> packages so that the
> manager would fetch them automatically from the
> users distribution. At
> least that's the way it seems to work for me on
> Ubuntu.
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> On 5/17/06, Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On 2006-05-17, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 17 May 2006 00:56, Kirk Black
> wrote:
> > > > When distributing the shared objects on Linux,
> do I only need to
> > > distribute
> > > > the liballeg.so.4.2 file or do I also need to
> include the modules that
> > > are
> > > > normally installed in
> /usr/local/lib/allegro/4.2/ (alleg-vga.so,
> > > > alleg-alsadigi.so, alleg-alsamidi.so,
> alleg-svgalib.so, alleg-fbcon.co,
> > > > alleg-artsdigi.so, alleg-dga2.so,
> alleg-esddigi.so)?
> > >
> > > You also need to distribute the modules. Bear in
> mind that distributing
> > > the .so libraries requires that the user has
> specific versions of its
> > > dependent libraries installed.
> >
> > For Allegro, the only dependency for which this is
> a problem is glibc.
> > Compiling against a newer glibc often makes a
> binary dependent on that
> > newer glibc.  You can try apbuild to avoid this. 
> There may also be a
> > problem with a few X extensions which don't come
> in dynamically linked
> > forms on some (older?) distributions.  apbuild
> statically links those
> > for you, apparently.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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