[gtkada] [ANNOUNCE] LinXtris 0.1a - A Tetris Clone

[Thomas De Contes]

Le vendredi, 20 juin 2003, à 19:53 Europe/Paris, David C. Hoos a écrit :

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> From: "Thomas De Contes" <d.l.tDeContes at free.fr>
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> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [gtkada] [ANNOUNCE] LinXtris 0.1a - A Tetris Clone
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> Le vendredi, 20 juin 2003, à 15:15 Europe/Paris, duliomatos a écrit :
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>> I mean it's better to distribute a
>> static binary than a regular one.
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> what are all these kind of binaries ? i known only one kind
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> A statically-linked binary is a binary which contains all of the code
> needed to run the program -- i.e., no dynamic link libraries --.DLLs
> (for Windows), no .sos (for Unix/Linux) -- are required.
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> Dynamically linked binaries are smaller because they don't contain
> code that is excpected to reside in the dynamic-link-libraries.
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> The statically linked binary has the advantage of not needing the
> external libraries, and the disadvantage that the needed libraries
> may not be present on the target machine.

thank you :-)

so, gnat uses to create Dynamically linked binaries, and we can put 
-largs -s to make it creating statically-linked binary, isn't it ?

why is it a disadvantage that the needed libraries may not be present 
on the target machine ???
i have to program a proprietary software ; if i've right understood, i 
need to make statically-linked binary to allow users to put it on any 
computer, isn't it ?