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darenr:
Hi

I run Archlinux which is using libpng1.4.2, but it appears that RockboxUtility is built against 1.2.

I tried just doing a symlink (sometimes it works... sometimes  ;) ), but not in this case!!

Is there a chance of a version built against this version of the library?, else I'll try and find some time to checkout via svn and build it myself..

Thanks

GodEater:
The download of Rockbox Utility that we offer is statically linked, so it doesn't matter which version of libpng your box is using.

Where have you got the version *you're* running from? It doesn't sound like one of ours.

AlexP:
I also use arch, and at least the x64 version of RBUtil available for download works fine for me.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: GodEater on June 07, 2010, 02:58:35 AM ---The download of Rockbox Utility that we offer is statically linked, so it doesn't matter which version of libpng your box is using.

Where have you got the version *you're* running from? It doesn't sound like one of ours.

--- End quote ---

It most likely is ours.

The Rockbox Utility binary provided is statically linked against Qt to avoid having a dependency here. However, Qt itself requires other libraries (which includes libpng), and not all of those libraries are statically linked, as well as various system libs (like libc). Linking all libraries statically isn't feasible IMO (I'm neither sure if that would work at all and how huge the resulting binary would become).

The x64 version is build on a different setup (read: a newer Linux distro) so it's possible that this is using a different version of libpng. I'll check for that later today, can't do this right now.

darenr:

--- Quote ---The download of Rockbox Utility that we offer is statically linked, so it doesn't matter which version of libpng your box is using.

Where have you got the version *you're* running from? It doesn't sound like one of ours.
--- End quote ---

To confirm this was downloaded directly from the Rockbox site.


--- Quote ---It most likely is ours.

The Rockbox Utility binary provided is statically linked against Qt to avoid having a dependency here. However, Qt itself requires other libraries (which includes libpng), and not all of those libraries are statically linked, as well as various system libs (like libc). Linking all libraries statically isn't feasible IMO (I'm neither sure if that would work at all and how huge the resulting binary would become).

The x64 version is build on a different setup (read: a newer Linux distro) so it's possible that this is using a different version of libpng. I'll check for that later today, can't do this right now.
--- End quote ---

Thanks for the clarification.

There's no real hurry on my part, I was just gonna update to 3.6, but I'm sure I'll live without it for a bit  ;)

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