I've been having trouble compiling an executable with SDL 1.2 and C that will work on another machine. I'vee been compiling it from Ubuntu using a makefile. I'd like to be able to send a "bin.zip" to a classmate, with "SDL.dll" and "SDL_ttf.dll" inside as well as "prog" the executable that I compiled for them.
I would expect them to be able to run that "prog" from their own Ubuntu desktop (Virtual Machine, if that's relevant) and not need to install libsdl1.2debian and libsdl-ttf2.0-0 themselves first, since I included the DLLs.
Note that they can run it fine once they've installed those libraries.
My project structure, at compilation, is such:
My makefile looks like this:
CC=gcc
CFLAGS=-c -Wall `sdl-config --cflags`
LDFLAGS=`sdl-config --libs` -lSDL_ttf
SOURCES=src/main.c src/toolbox.c src/game.c
OBJECTS=$(SOURCES:.c=.o)
EXECUTABLE=bin/prog
.PHONY: clean
all: $(SOURCES) $(EXECUTABLE)
$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJECTS)
$(CC) $(OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@
.c.o:
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@
clean:
rm -f $(OBJECTS) $(EXECUTABLE)
Am I missing something obvious? Edit: (Yes, I was)
Yes, I was missing something obvious : DLLs are specifically for Windows
Now, as for getting an executable to work without installing the required libraries, I still haven't managed that (linking statically didn't pan out, in my case), but at least I learnt something.
If I give cross-compilation to Windows a try, I'll try to update this.