Static Portable Build.

[Alex313031]

Hello, I have a compiler optimized fork that I build for Linux and Windows. > https://github.com/Alex313031/geany-ng On Windows one can make a "portable" version, by just zipping up the artifacts in the installer.

However, on Linux, just like alot of programs that use make install, this doesn't work. It expects libraries to be in certain places. Simply placing all the artifacts in one dir doesn't allow it to run.

Is there a way one could make a "Static" build, or perhaps adjust the prefix so that one could make a "portable" build.

[elextr]

adjust the prefix so that one could make a "portable" build.

The usual ./configure --prefix=/foo/blah or as README says meson configure --prefix=/foo/blah

[b4n]

Does that actually solve anything if there isn't /foo/blah on the target system?

[Alex313031]

It worked. With this and the below comment about --enable-binreloc.
I was also able to make a Windows release with MSYS2.
Thanks yall

[b4n]

Look up the relocatable option (--enable-binreloc or something), it should work. If you need extra libraries packed, you should be able to ship them next to libgeany.so.

[Alex313031]

It worked. Yeah I included some GTK libs.
I was also able to make a Windows release with MSYS2.
Thanks yall