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I have program using gtkmm, gtkglextmm and exiv2.
I want to include these libraries with the executable, because the app will not work if user doesn’t has them on his/her system. On Windows .dll files solved the matter (I put them in the same directory as output file).
How to attached similar libraries on Linux? Is there any tool helping with that? I cannot force user to install dependencies.
Better yet, use the package system of the distribution[s] you want to target, e.g. .deb packaging on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint (with
aptitudeorapt-get, themselves usingdpkg), Yum/Rpm on Redhat/Fedora, etc etc.DLL-s are called shared libraries (files named
*.so) on Linux (in ELF format, useobjdump,nm… to explore them, andgcc -fPIC -sharedto build them). They can be programmatically loaded with dlopen &dlsym. Beware that there are important differences between windows DLL-s & Linux *.so (dynamic linking don’t have the same meaning on Windows & Linux)