Comment on single binary executable and dlls

nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

There is one case I can think of where statically linked binaries make sense: games. They’re almost always closed-source even on otherwise open-source systems, and so cannot be recompiled against newer library versions, and (for smaller indies especially) it isn’t unusual for the people who do have the code to close up shop and vanish off the face of the Internet. For those, it honestly is better for them to carry all their libraries around with them, even if it results in some binary bloat.

For open-source software, dynamic linking isn’t usually an issue until some piece of software goes unmaintained for so long that it catches bit-rot.

For software not in one of those two categories . . . well, maybe you ought to move off Windows?

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