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bmdeeal / quig

quig -- simple system for creating small games with Lua
GNU General Public License v3.0
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provide binaries/packages #4

Open bmdeeal opened 3 years ago

bmdeeal commented 3 years ago

We currently don't ship any binaries for quig. [edit: we now do for Windows, this issue now refers to the lack of Linux packages]

On Windows, we use MSYS2 to build quig currently, but to distribute a standalone .zip requires several dozen .DLL files to be bundled, many of which are for things which are not used (for example, SDL_image wants libwebp even though we only use transparent PNG).

On Debian and similar, we don't need to distribute the dependencies ourselves, massively simplifying things. We just need to actually package quig there.

bmdeeal commented 2 years ago

quig currently builds under VS2019, which makes it much easier to ship binaries, although it still requires a ton of .dll files alongside it.

bmdeeal commented 2 years ago

quig now ships a Windows binary. However, we do not currently ship a Linux package of any kind, Linux users still must download the source and compile. I'm hoping to ship Debian packages at some point.