On 7/9/09, Thomas Martitz <[email protected]> wrote: > The main blocker is the fact that rbutil is still a 1-binary app, > statically linking Qt stuff. IIRC that's a no-go for packaging.
This is completely nonsense. Please don't state such things if you don't know about it. We distribute Rockbox Utility binaries as "1-binary app" for convenience. There is no need to do that, and in fact the wiki page contains directions how to build Rockbox Utility statically -- which in turn means that you can build it dynamically without any problems. In fact I'm using dynamically linked binaries during development all the time, and for building dynamically you don't need anything special -- when building *statically* you need a statically built copy of Qt and run qmake with the "-config static" option. There is *one* thing that you can't disable this way: embedding of resources in the binary, which also includes icons. Though I've never heard of this being a problem for packaging, as the licence permits doing so. The reason there is no package is simply that nobody made one. Feel free to give it a go. - Dominik
