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   Message 324 of 1,725   
   Wilfred van Velzen to Andrew Leary   
   Re: MakeNL 3.3.0 Release   
   22 Nov 12 13:13:01   
   
   Hi Andrew,   
      
   On 21 Nov 12 08:43, Andrew Leary wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:   
     about: "MakeNL 3.3.0 Release":   
      
    WvV>> So it's 32 bit, but that probably isn't too important. The   
    WvV>> 'dynamically linked' is though, because that means it only runs on   
    WvV>> systems that have the correct set of libraries installed.   
      
    AL> Right.  I personally recommend that Linux users get the source code   
    AL> archive and compile MakeNL on the system where it will be used.   
      
   That's what I do...   
      
    AL> On the system I built the release version on, the statically linked   
    AL> version is over 700KB, whereas the dynamically linked version is   
    AL> 64.7KB.   
      
   It's not very usefull to distibute the dynamically linked version. So either   
   distribute the statically linked one (It will probably compress to something   
   smaller), or don't distribute a linux executable at all... IMHO.   
      
   Wilfred.   
      
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