Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets

Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by vortico on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:59PM (#18847879)

I work for VCV, which also ships for Linux. I don't find it an issue at all, since the build system is a Makefile supporting Mingw64/MSYS2 on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

We statically link everything except glibc, which we've decided to dynamically link to glibc 2.23 (meaning that Ubuntu 16.04 is the oldest we support). We've had no problems with this approach, although the disadvantage is that we have to use an old version of GCC to compile the software, since I haven't figured out a way to make a new GCC version produce binaries which link to old glibc.

No need for containers or anything, just make a mostly-static-except-for-glibc binary.

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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by jcelerier on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:52PM (#18851096)

> the disadvantage is that we have to use an old version of GCC to compile the software, since I haven't figured out a way to make a new GCC version produce binaries which link to old glibc.

I personnally compile with latest GCC or LLVM on centos 7, this way I can use the very latest C++ standards with a venerable glibc

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