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Help => Audio => Topic started by: metafurionx on December 15, 2017, 08:25:37 am
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I wanna have everything for my small game in a single .exe.
I can include the resources and statically link the libraries, ok. But for the audio part, this leaves me with an openall32.dll outside.
I believe I'm allowed to add it too if I follow the "About" approach mentioned here (https://stackoverflow.com/a/30152505).
How should I do it? Can I somehow statically link it, have SFML detect it from embedded resources or do something else?
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Your only option is to recompile OpenAL as a static library, recompile SFML to use that static library, and adopt a license for your project that makes all this possible (LGPL or compatible -- with everything that involves).
So much pain... for what benefit?
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Your only option is to recompile OpenAL as a static library, recompile SFML to use that static library, and adopt a license for your project that makes all this possible (LGPL or compatible -- with everything that involves).
Thanks so much for the positive answer and directions, I'll do that and give a good read on http://openal-soft.org/ and LGPL v2 (http://repo.or.cz/w/openal-soft.git/blob/HEAD:/COPYING).
So much pain... for what benefit?
A retro game, because it's small. I want it to look like single-exe old games like Dangerous Dave (DOS) or SkiFree. Yes, it's mere artistic touch, but it's no pain at all, I love this. If it were, I'd just go with the package trick from Ludum Dare (http://ludumdare.com/compo/2016/04/21/how-to-make-your-game-into-a-single-exe/).
Out of that, I agree, it's unpractical. I prefer DLLs for everything instead, even resources (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/24b2tcy0.aspx) because I do partial updates.