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General / Re: Distribute linux binary using SFML

« on: April 04, 2016, 09:07:43 am »

Thanks for your answers:

You can set a primary search path at compile/link time with -R or -rpath.

When I launch my app on Ubuntu 14.04: it doesn't find libsfml-graphics.so.2.3 because it doesn't exist (only version 2.1 exist). Do you suggest I insert SFML 2.3 directly on my package and I reference it with -rpath option ?

Running ldd -v on a file will list its dependencies.

Yes, I have already run this command and the dependencies returned are libsfml-graphics2.3v5,.... But as I explain in my first post: it's incompatible with Ubuntu older version like 14.04

Here others questions which could help me to understand better:
* If I create an binary using SFML 2.3. Could I execute it with SFML 2.1 without re-compile it ?
* Why in Ubuntu 14.04, the package name is "libsfml-graphics2" (which refer to version 2.1) and on Unbutu 15.10, the package name is "libsfml-graphics2.3v5". Shouldn't we have same package name: "libsfml-graphics2" ?

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General / Distribute linux binary using SFML

« on: April 03, 2016, 12:40:50 pm »

Hello,

I've created an application which use SFML on Ubuntu 15.10 using: libsfml-graphics2.3v5, libsfml...
I try to create a Debian package (.deb) from the binary and I need to specify the dependencies of my binary.

I don't know which exact dependencies/version I need to specify. Here the tests I've done:

- I've tried to specify libsfml-graphics2.3v5 as dependency: it work on Ubuntu 15.10 but not on Ubuntu 14.04 because this package doesn't exist (only libsfml-graphics2 exist).

- I've tried to specify libsfml-graphics2 as dependency: it doesn't work on Ubuntu 15.10 because this package doesn't exist (only libsfml-graphics2.3v5 exist). On Ubuntu 14.04, the package is installed because all dependencies exist. Unfortunately, when I execute the binary, I've got this message : "libsfml-graphics.so.2.3...no such file or directory" (only libsfml-graphics.so.2 & libsfml-graphics.so.2.1 exist).

My question:
* Is it possible to compile a binary which can run on all Linux distributions having libsfml-graphics2* ? How ?
* Which dependency I need to specify for my binary ?

Thank you in advance.