Re: [Pipmak-Users] Linked libraries

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

>  I take back what I said before about the window edge resistance with 
> the mouse grabbing, because I stopped having trouble with it when I used 
> the pre-compiled executable which has the physfs library staticly linked in.

Are you sure that's caused by Physfs? I have no idea why that would have 
anything to do with it...

>  But I also wanted to know why the Pipmak source documentation says to 
> compile Lua yourself instead of using a package from your distribution.  

No specific reason. I just assumed that Lua and Physfs were less likely 
to be available as packages from a distribution than SDL and the other 
dependencies. Plus they're easy to build without having to install them 
and link in statically.

> So, would it make a difference if I just used the Lua5 package from 
> Debian, instead of getting the official source from the Lua project?

If you have Lua 5.0.x, I don't think so. Lua 5.1 has some small changes 
in the language, but I assume it should work as well. For the official 
release I've deferred updating to it until version 0.3, when backwards 
compatibility can be broken.

  -Christian