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Anyway... Those alone make my distro large (my executable is a tiny 30K after packing and any demo data is largely generated procedurally so they are the main culprits). I'm still kind of annoyed that SDL_image reguires me to carry along libpng1.dll, jpeg.dll, and zlib.dll even though I don't actually use them at all.

This also annoyed me very badly, so I've searched for other, alternative libraries that could load RGBA .png files (cause in only them I was interested in), would not link to any other external libraries (at least, no additional .dlls needed) and would produce SDL_Surface (well, this one was a little too unrealistic, but theese specs were for dream-like lib, I knew eventually I would need to write some wrapper code myself). I've spent whole day searching through Google, Sourceforge, SDL sites, on GameDev, Flipcode... you know what? I found literally _nothing_. 95% of them used libpng etc., 4% that weren't using it, were only in commercial versions, and the last 1%... couldn't load png's :-/
This world is so cruel... ;-)

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You can compile libpng (and zlib, libjpeg) as a static library so it will compile directly into your code without needing a .dll

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I don't know if SDL_Image has support for that, but using libpng directly is pretty simple to do.

Quote:Original post by Drew_Benton
There is an awesome program (Sorry, can't remember its name now) that will package *everything* your game needs into a single .exe. It is some sort of special packer that makes distributing your stuff a lot easier, since you only have a single .exe. It works similarly to a zip file, you can edit the archive and what not then rebuild the final .exe. It has a free demo that displays that the trial version cannot be distributed, but if you have a serious project and have lots of .dlls and expect to make $$ with it, I'd recommend using it. It can even do your artwork, sound, and anything else.