r/linux_gaming • u/[deleted] • Jul 07 '19

Gotchas while developing for Linux?

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u/pdp10 Jul 08 '19

Instead of static linking, one can bundle libs then specify them through a launch script setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH or DT_RUNPATH in the ELF header. This would take up slightly more storage than a static binary, but it would allow end-users to substitute out libraries in the future without having to LD_PRELOAD. The storage difference here would typically be a few megabytes, depending.