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

Stephan Rose wrote:
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.

Then making a static version or provide all required libraries (see Cedega for
an example).

Keep in mind, if you say "support Linux", then you have the big/little endian
to think about too, quite many architectures uses big endian, but I guess you
only mean Linux x86 and with Mac only "Mactels".


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

Your application may not become that popular among Linux and Mac users, if
it's not really special.


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

There are quite many options, what if you use a gnome2 depending function? Not
all has that built in their wxwidgets, some may only have gtk+, but not gtk2,
with or without opengl support and so on.


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?

A system may have opengl support, it don't have to mean that the wxwidget has
opengl support, if you really want it to work static would be the easiest.

--

//Aho
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