# Package SDL in a linux game installer?

**URL:** <https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/package-sdl-in-a-linux-game-installer/14959>\
**Category:** SDL Development\
**Created:** [November 13, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/package-sdl-in-a-linux-game-installer/14959 "2007-11-13T17:11:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gabriele\_Greco](https://discourse.libsdl.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gabriele\_Greco](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/Gabriele_Greco)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/package-sdl-in-a-linux-game-installer/14959/1 "2007-11-13T17:11:16Z")

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I’m ready to ship the demo of Ankh2 ([www.ankh-game.com](http://www.ankh-game.com)), that uses SDL  
for input handling & opengl context setup.

In Ankh1 I provided a compiled version of SDL inside the installer  
archive, but I’m planning for Ankh2 to NOT to ship SDL with the game but  
to use the default version of the linux distro.

The most “recent” feature of SDL the game use is SDL\_GetVideoInfo() to  
get the desktop width/height and clone it’s resolution, but this is  
provided since 1.2.7 that I think it’s available on every recent linux  
distro…

I’m also planning as requirement libstdc++.so.6, since I don’t want to  
ship the standard c++ runtime, this requirement may change, I could ship  
libstdc++ like I did for Ankh1 but I’d like to use the new improved  
version since the api of the library seems stable across revisions since  
gcc-3.4… I cannot follow the “autopackage” approach to provide two  
binaries for libstdc++.so.5 and .6 because actually the game don’t build  
at all with 3.3 or older gcc…

Any comment on problems I may have following this approach? 🙂

I think the demo will ship anyway this way but I’ll have a few weeks to  
change the build process if I find some REAL weakness!–  
Bye,  
Gabry