[Openal] deployement

Jason Daly jdaly at ist.ucf.edu
Wed Oct 10 11:03:43 PDT 2007


Andre Krause wrote:
>
> i must admit my project is kind of a special case. nonetheless, it is 
> not a very uncommon
> and imho growing scenario (see also this thread on libSDL mailing list:
> http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2007-September/062841.html 
> )
>
> i have a single executable game downloadable from a website, that i 
> want to be ready to run
> without any installers and stuff, not even with the need to unzip, as 
> this is another burden
> some casual gamers cant handle.

And that's fine.  As I said, static linking is not inherently bad.

If you're already using an installer, the OpenAL installer is very easy 
to add.  I can see how it would be problematic for a single-executable 
app,  though.

--"J"




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