Re: [Adonthell-devel] First 0.3 Windows binaries

[Alexandre Courbot]

> Just a small question... The windows binary has everything it needs
> inside it, right? I mean, you don't need SDL, Python etc installed on
> windows to play the game? Is it possible to make a package like that for
> *nix? I know it's not usual but if the normal binaries and sources are
> available I don't see a problem in making a self-sufficient version like
> that for newbies.

If you look carefully at the windows binary, you'll notice that all the
DLLs are provided - that is, everything isn't inside the library. This
make sense since most people doesn't have neither SDL, nor Vorbis, and
certainly not Python! :)

We could make static binaries for *nix, as you suggested. But now,
distros package systems can handle dependancies very well, (Debian and
Mandrake at least) so I'd say we shouldn't encourage people to do that.
But that's of course possible.

Alex.
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