Re: I've had it with Windows--I'm switching to Linux

J.O. Aho wrote:

You don't use the same binary, due dependencies, but you will have the
same programs to 99% on each distro, those that you don't have in one
distro you can always compile from source.

That raises a question from me actually.

An app I am developing right now, and essentially every app I will be
developing in the future, is cross-platform to run on Windows, Linux, and
Mac.

While I know I need to create binaries for each target platform, I am fine
with that, I'd rather not deal with creating binaries for all the various
distributions.

Distributing the code is in my case not an option. I do need to make my
living somehow. =)

Now at this particular moment, the only dependancies I really have are the
following:

- wxWidgets which is static linked so no shared libs needed. It however
depends on GTK2.0 for the UI.

- Opengl

- stdlib functions (not sure if they are being static linked or not, haven't
checked yet).

That's it.

So with these dependancies, am I in a position of having to generate
seperate binaries for any other distros or should one binary essentially
work across the board given that GTK2.0 and OpenGL is present?

Thanks,

--
Stephan
2003 Yamaha R6

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