[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Sonic Visualiser: An application for audio visualisation and analysis

[Alexandre DENIS]

Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 11:49, Stéphane Letz wrote:
>> Why do you do a static with libjack?  I was thinking jack was
>> supposed to always be used with a shared lib version...
> 
> Well, what is the proper solution when distributing a binary?
> 
>  1. Link libjack statically
>  2. Omit JACK support
> 
> Just linking dynamically isn't an option.  I want to fall back on 
> another output if JACK is absent, not fail to start at all.
> 
> I suppose there may be
> 
>  3. dlopen libjack from within the program and continue if it fails
> 
> I haven't tried that; is it a reasonable option?

It would require to dlsym() every libjack symbol. A better option seems 
to be:

4. dlopen() your jack backend, itself beeing dynamically linked against 
libjack.

-a.