Re: [LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 08:37:08PM +0100, Markus Seeber wrote:
> On 12/10/2017 03:31 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Markus Seeber <
> > markus.seeber@spectralbird.de> wrote:
> >
> >> ​
> >> Just employ static linking when sensible.
> >
> > ​unortunately, several large toolkits of various types make this impossible
> > because they themselves use dynamic (runtime-driven) loading of shared
> > objects. GTK (and its dependency stack) is a particular offender there, but
> > I believe the same is true of Qt. You can't statically link against this
> > type of toolkit if your goal is to end up with a self-contained binary. the
> > g* stack has made a few improvements in this area in recent years, but
> > AFAIK it still isn't possible to build a self-contained binary. JUCE
> > differs from this, I believe.​
> > ​
>
> That is exactly the problem with plugins. At the same time I'd say:
> "Don't use these GUI librarys for plugins and do not load any plugin that exports these symbols."
> and be done with it, let offensive software die. In my eyes writing a plugin GUI
> in GTK/Qt is very bad practice for exactly these reasons.

So what would you write it in instead?

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Gordonjcp
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