12 Dec
2017
12 Dec
'17
4:40 p.m.
On 12.12.2017 16:02, Gordonjcp wrote:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 09:26:55PM +0100, Markus
Seeber wrote:
You can still statically link for example with FLTK and derivatives or roll your
That doesn't answer the question, really. For one thing, statically
linking *anything* is utterly ridiculous and anyone doing that now or
indeed at any point in the past 30 years of Unix development should have
their hands cut off.
I guess I need to cut my hands then. And a bunch of other developers
will too.
Static linking is sometimes the only choice if you want to ensure the
plugin binaries that yourself distribute will work for everyone.
Try using a new fftw3 and then use the binary on a slightly older
system, and you'll see missing symbols.
We had this kind of discussion several times already...
Either we use self-contained plugins, or stop using (shared library
based) plugins altogether.
and be done with it, let offensive software die. In my
eyes writing a plugin GUI
in GTK/Qt is very bad practice for exactly these reasons.
So what would you write
it in instead?