Best way to compile and package a SFML 2 program on Linux?

[MaTachi]

Hi!

I'm using Ubuntu and is their repository is only SFML 1.6 available, so I need to add the SFML 2 library files to my program somehow. I currently have a bash script to start the program:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=sfml/lib && ./bin/main

It says where the library files can be found and starts the program. But that isn't a very elegant solution imo, and I wonder if it's possible to do this in a better way. Is it possible to compile or link the program so the external library files aren't needed? I would like a solution that gives me a single executable file that I can double click to start.

MTFBWYA,
MaTachi

[Laurent]

You can compile SFML statically. Or you can also use rpath features to avoid the startup script.