[Ohrrpgce] Distribute menu Linux tarball

[Ralph Versteegen]

Also, I hadn't heard C.Kane was greenlit! I thought Ruin was first. What's
a steam depot?

On 8 July 2015 at 04:16, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, that would be nice. How many GNU/Linux users can actually install
> .deb files without manually extracting files out anyway?
>
> As you said, it's not necessary to statically link the binaries, we can
> set a link flag to look in the same directory as the executable (or some
> other relative directory) for shared libraries with "gcc
> -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN'"
>
> Statically linking them would have the benefit of reducing the total
> package size though.
>
> I looked at how several Linux games I had were packaged/distributed.
> Almost all of them included separate binaries for x86 and for x64, though
> Jason Rohrer only distributed 32 bit binaries and when I pointed out to him
> that none of his games would work on non-multilib 64 bit linux (e.g. Ubuntu
> by default) he said no one had complained (but I think his games
> distributed via steam should always run, since steam provides a full set of
> libraries).
>
> Almost everyone included .sos for SDL/SDL2 and other SDL libraries if they
> used them, as well as libraries like GLEW
> A few of the games included libstdc++.so.X or libgcc_s or similiar
> A few included libogg, etc.
> Nobody seemed to have statically linked anything such as libc or other
> common libraries
> Steam includes heaps of libraries to emulate Ubuntu 12.04 that override
> many of the system ones; on Slackware certain games would not run until I
> deleted this whole lot.
>
> Since we don't even support x64 yet, I suggest just including libSDL and
> libSDL_mixer and calling it a day. Probably a bad idea to statically link
> anything.
>
> On 7 July 2015 at 08:23, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> So today I was reading some docs about Steam for Linux, and trying to
>> figure out what files are needed.
>>
>> That reminded me of an earlier idea that had fallen by the wayside, which
>> was to allow export of a Linux Tarball equivalent to the Windows Zip from
>> the DIstribute menu.
>>
>> Superficially it should be pretty simple. It just needs include a renamed
>> copy of the ohrrpgce-game executable, and exclude the .dll files that are
>> normally in the windows zip.
>>
>> What about libraries? All we really need is SDL and SDL_mixer. Is it
>> reasonable to just let people deal with that themselves? Like "If you are
>> downloading a linux tarball, you already know how to install SDL and would
>> resent any attempts I make to bundle it?"
>>
>> Is it reasonable to dump a copy of libSDL.so and libSDL_mixer.so into the
>> same folder? I think that works?
>>
>> Is trying to build a statically linked Linux executable worth the effort?
>>
>> I think I will take a stab at the very simplest implementation of this
>> (the don't bother with libraries approach), and we can refine it later.
>>
>> Also, once I get some feedback from The Wobbler and from Meatballsub
>> about how their experiences with putting C.Kane and Ruin on Steam progress,
>> I would like to think about a Distribute Menu option like "Export Steam
>> Depot" or something along those lines
>>
>>
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