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

J.O. Aho wrote:

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).

That's what I was thinking, just wanted to make sure that worked as I expect
it to in the linux world. Thanks =)


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".

Hmm good point there.

To be honest, my primary targets are Linux and Windows. Mac is sort of a
bonus that I am not all *that* worried about...at least not at this point
in time. I probably won't even really support Mac until someone actually
makes a request for it or asks for it.



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.

Well I don't generally write applications for the mass-market. I specialize
in either customer-specific applications or high-end commercial apps. So
usually I don't worry about winning popularity contests with the average
user. =)

I actually already have multiple requests for it from people sick and tired
of the existing products (disregarding OS) and the app is still deep in
development!



- 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.

Right now I have it configured for GTK2 so it shouldn't use anything that
depends on gnome2. If it does, I'd consider that a bug within wxWidgets. I
don't think it does though.



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.

Well I static link wxWidgets for just *that* reason! There are faaaaar too
many ways to configure wxWidgets for me to ever want to link it
dynamically. That would be a support nightmare.

Thanks very much, appreciate the response.

--
Stephan
2003 Yamaha R6

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