How to make standalone .deb package of app using self-compiled sfml

[netrick]

So I have an app which uses sfml compiled by me (because I needed two fixes that appeared after sfml 2 release). My question is how can I make a debian/ubuntu package which will provide my app and all the required shared libs (sfml and its dependencies)?

The only solution I can think of is to static link everything, but that's a lot of time finding out how to static link every dependency. I think there must be some better way. Maybe it's possible to put every .so file in app directory and tell the executable to look for libs in its directory? I think cx_freeze uses this approach on linux.

[Mario]

More like an ugly hack, but for my LD26 game I just wrote a small shell script as a wrapper, which launches the game and tells it to specifically look for dependencies in the current directory:

#/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="." ./game

Although keep in mind that this is far from being perfect and might be nothing for something that's supposed to be called from a different working directory (i.e. installed).

[eXpl0it3r]

It's not an ugly hack at all, but the way many games deploy on Linux platforms, where you need a certain version of a library.