hello all, Ive come accross a couple of static binaries in my search for windoze replacements, and since i download the occasional source to apps not in deb's i was wondering how one makes these.
Now from what i understand they do not depend on lib's on my system as they are compiled in - thus making them much bigger - is this right. Anyway i have some favorite apps and thought if i can make static version myself then i dont have to worry about them breaking when i upgrade in future, which most invariably do and not all of these are kept up to date with newer libs. <sigh> i had hoped that with linux id escape that loathsome M$ style dll hell goes not. With my latest upgrade ( running potato ) i broke star office, and now question wheter if i buy a commercial app or game im going to eventually have to chuck it, or fork out for a upgrade , Since no doubt newer apps will require newer lib's etc <sighh> Im somewhat dissapointed to find im still stuck with that sort of mess :( Id hoped to escape it with linux. Of course its ussually not a problem with free source but ive found unless those are kept up to date eventually they just break as well. ( Yes i know update them yourself etc, id like to learn c++ but linux seems to be mostly c, so ive settled on learning the bash shell... first, then i'll aim higher :) ) Anyway linux now is my preffered OS though ive still got some windoze apps i have not found replacements for. ie Quicken, diary, several games . And yes i know about wine ( great effort :) ) ( windoze does it better )- i just want to lose windows completely.
