[Solved] Too Many DLLS
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:05 pm
They're just too many for a small game.. Can't I just combine them all together or hide them? 
Though i've seen very small games with more external libs than löve
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[Solved] Too Many DLLS
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Re: Too Many DLLS
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:28 pm
You can set the files' attributes to hidden, on windows at least. (though some people prefer seeing even hidden and system files, can't help that)
Though i've seen very small games with more external libs than löve
Though i've seen very small games with more external libs than löve
Re: Too Many DLLS
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:58 pm
Can I at least put them on a separate folder?
Re: Too Many DLLS
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 1:05 pm
My best guess is, you would need to compile löve from source, and specify that the dll-s are in a subfolder, though i haven't tested it.
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 3:28 pm
i have made another thread for this check at https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=80556
Re: Too Many DLLS
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:54 am
I've uploaded the combined LOVE and the dependencies here.
Re: Too Many DLLS
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 8:06 pm
That sounds illegal. The .dll files are separated because their licenses require them to be replaceable unless everything is open source, IIRC.Ortimh wrote:I've uploaded the combined LOVE and the dependencies here.
Re: Too Many DLLS
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 5:06 am
Well not illegal if the project is open source and users can get a way to "build" everything, as discussed hereT-Bone wrote:That sounds illegal. The .dll files are separated because their licenses require them to be replaceable unless everything is open source, IIRC.Ortimh wrote:I've uploaded the combined LOVE and the dependencies here.
Re: Too Many DLLS
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 7:05 pm
Everything except OpenAL Soft and libmpg123 can be combined with almost no restrictions (license text must be included somewhere). libmpg123 is optional, you don't need it if you don't use mp3 files. Therefore, you can go down to one exe and one dll total, if that's aesthetically better for you.
Re: Too Many DLLS
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:26 pm
DevIL is also LGPL.foo0 wrote:Everything except OpenAL Soft and libmpg123 can be combined with almost no restrictions (license text must be included somewhere).
Microsoft generally recommends against statically linking the Visual C/C++ libraries.
In SDL2's case it's useful in practice to be able to swap out the SDL2.dll for a newer / different one with fixes or changes. Doing so has fixed issues for people numerous times already.
The Lua .dll provided with LÖVE is actually LuaJIT, and it too can be swapped out with an updated version (e.g. LuaJIT 2.1-alpha). It can also be swapped out with standard Lua 5.1.