How to create portable Linux binaries (even if you need a recent compiler)

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  • SDL

    Simple Directmedia Layer

  • And there is SDL2 which you should mostly also not link statically against: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/docs/README-dynapi.md

  • score

    ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts

  • there's no need to write it. I ship https://ossia.io for most glibc-based linuxes of the last 5-ish years and I basically just run

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