stick shared library to app

Question

Is it possible to stick a shared library to an app? I don't want to cross compile or anything like that. the shared library uses typical libraries which are available on target systems( i.e. Ubuntu 32bit x86) according to 'ldd'.

Answer 1

If there is a staticly built version of the library available (libxxx.a instead of libxxx.so), the easiest way would be to link against that. If that is not possible, you could create something like a self-extracting executable tar file with the app and the shared library. For example, see http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/add-binary-payload-your-shell-scripts