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Help => General => Topic started by: JasonLeon on October 24, 2023, 11:29:05 am

Title: How can I pack dlls into exe and how can sf::Font load the font from the system?
Post by: JasonLeon on October 24, 2023, 11:29:05 am

The dll that SFML project needs is kind of large. openal32, sfml-audio-d-2, sfml-graphics-d-2, sfml-network-d-2, sfml-system-d-2, sfml-window-d-2, six dlls are totally 13.7 MB.
Besides, font file is approximately 20MB, can sf::Font load from system fonts?
I'm using CLion, by the way.

Title: Re: How can I pack dlls into exe and how can sf::Font load the font from the system?
Post by: eXpl0it3r on October 28, 2023, 05:01:32 pm

You can link SFML statically, that way all the needed symbols will be included in your executable. The only exception is OpenAL due to licensing reasons, it will have to remain as DLL.

SFML doesn't provide any facilities to access system fonts, as that wouldn't really work cross-platform, but if you know the path, you should be able to just point to the path and load from there.