[Ohrrpgce] [ohrrpgce/ohrrpgce] Linux: Package SDL, SDL_mixer in tarballs (#1202)

[Ralph Versteegen]

Linux tarballs, both of Custom and of packaged games, should include SDL and SDL_mixer libraries, as these are not installed by default in many/most distros.

I'm surprised how frequently I've lately been getting complaints of the engine not running on Linux, so I think this is a high priority. This has become much more common since people started uploading games to itch.io.

SDL_mixer depends on other libraries like libogg, but these are all very likely to already be installed on the system, plus it can be compiled to link to these libraries at runtime. We should provide builds that use runtime linking so that they can at least execute and show an error message.

Also discussed at https://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Portable_GNU-Linux_binaries#Other_libraries

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