[Fluxus] static builds

Dave Griffiths dave at pawfal.org
Tue May 5 03:43:25 PDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 18:10 -0300, Glauber Alex Dias Prado wrote:
> Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 19:03 +0200, gabor papp wrote:
> >> hi Dave,
> >> 
> >> > I've added some flags to the build to allow fluxus to be built with
> >> > the binary modules embedded. This is mainly to help out with
> >> > packaging
> >> great! thanks.
> Second that great!
> >> 
> >> i'm looking at the modifications checking the similarities with
> >> the osx application, and noticed that you included only a few modules.
> >> don't we require scheme/pretty, scheme/class, and frtime also? i would
> >> also include ffi, so the users could use scheme bindings for binary
> >> dynamic libraries.
> >
> > Simply because I was trying to find out the bare minimum (and get rid of
> > some dependencies - eg srfi replaced by a one line function) Feel free
> > to add these...
> >
> > Heres a static everything binary, I've just tested it on a clean install
> > of ubuntu hardy, and it 'just works' without installing anything:
> > http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/files/fluxus-0.16-hardy-bin.tar.gz
> 
> So cool, it even worked on a netbook here with a geode video :)(of
> course far from fast cause of hardware but it works and just out of
> the box), I feel the sorry for those newcomers not having to compile
> fluxus themselves :).

Excellent! It should basically work with any linux install with a
matching glibc version (2.7 I think). You can find the version number
with:
/lib/libc.so.6 | head -1 

cheers,

dave





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