[Mono-dev] Static Bundling

[Avery Pennarun]

On 18/12/2007, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:
>
> > > > it can't find: libgdiplus.so. After installing the library,
> > > > it fails because it can't find: libMonoPosixHelper.so.
> > >
> > > You have to deploy those libs together with your bundle.
> >
> > Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
>
> mkbundle can not cope with that case, and chances are, it will not for a
> long time.

I've been looking at using mkbundle myself for my own work.  It's
network stuff, not graphical, so I wouldn't expect gdiplus to be a
problem for me.

But what exactly is "that case" that it can't cope with?
Dynamically-linked elf libraries?  Could I just rebuild with static
libs instead?

Thanks,

Avery