Question about runtimes

Mark Naughton mark at marknaughton.com
Wed Aug 7 11:09:50 UTC 2024


On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 01:48:29PM GMT, Daniel Wilkins wrote:
> This is incomplete. SDL will dlopen several other libraries at runtime
> depending on what's needed in order to keep the linkage minimal for
> those who don't use it. You'll notice a lack of linking against Xlib
> or xcb for example, because if you launch the app in Wayland it'll
> dlopen against Wayland instead.

These extra dependencies are included as metadata in the package.
Flatpak could do this too but the answer as to why it doesn't seems to
be it 'simply doesn't' which is a shame.


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