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    <blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1522990/whats-the-best-way-to-distribute-a-binary-application-for-linux">What’s the best way to distribute a binary application for Linux?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>We would like publish a proprietary game in Linux. The game is relatively simple, has a custom engine written in C++. We have been using the MinGW compiler on Windows and one person does programming and testing in Linux with the g++ compiler.</p> <p>The game is written exclusively using open source libraries, which are all cross-platform.</p> <p>What is the <em>recommended</em> way to make a program for Linux work across all Linux distributions without requiring packaging for any of them? The ideal way for me would be to package it as a .zip or tarball and provide that a download, just like good ol' .exe files under Windows that work with system libraries.</p> <p>Most games I've played under Linux that provide such downloads offer a shell script (which is a compatibility problem in itself!) that launches it. I have no problem with it, but it <em>reeks</em> of user-unfriendliness. Additionally, a lot of games require additional libraries. For instance, SDL 2.0, the hardware-accelerated new-version of the popular library, is not yet available in most distributions' repositories yet several games are known to use it, and I had to compile it myself. This is even worse.</p> <p>I would like a solution whereby a customer can click on the binary file in their file manager of choice, and it would run, no 'apt-getting' or 'yumming' of the necessary libraries. I don't mind breaking standards, and if it has to go in /opt, it will.</p>
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    1. CODirect binary without any apt-getting/'yumming' etc? Good luck.
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    2. COThe whole point of package managers is to take care of libraries that your progam depends on, so you don't have to check all of them yourself. That is definitely the way to go.
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    3. COPossible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/q/1522990/951890
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