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No problem.  Haiku uses hpkg as it's native software distribution format.  You can package up a hpkg in the zip and people who purchase McPixel 3 can just copy the McPixel3.hpkg (or whatever) into /boot/system/packages (system wide), /home/config/packages (per-user) to install it.  If the user is missing libsdl2 (if you do it shared), then the OS will ask to install it.

If you're statically linking it though, you really shouldn't need libsdl2 in theory as a dependency.  Anyway, hpkg or just zipping the artifacts up, either way will work.

Thanks for supporting Haiku!!   If you have any technical questions the forum is generally full of help.  https://discuss.haiku-os.org

There are standard development tools available for this.
You need the development sdl2 package installed though.

```
pkgman install libsdl2 libsdl2_devel
```

now, libsdl2 shows up in the standard pkg-config...

```

$ pkg-config sdl2 --libs

-L/packages/libsdl2-2.0.20-3/.self/develop/lib -lSDL2

```

And static...

```

$ pkg-config sdl2 --libs --static

-L/packages/libsdl2-2.0.20-3/.self/develop/lib -lSDL2 -ltextencoding -ldevice -lgame -lmedia -lbe -lroot -lGL -lm -Wl,--no-undefined -lSDL2
```

You can even make an operating system package with SDL2 dependencies:

```
cd ~
ls mcpixel3_haiku_x64   # bin gfx scr etc

cat .PackageInfo

name  mcpixel3
version 1.7-1  (whatever)
architecture x86_64
summary  "save the world"
description  "saving the world, one McPixel at a time"
vendor "Devolver Digital"
packager "staff@devolverdigital.com"
copyrights {"(C) 2012-2023 Devolver Digital"}
licenses  {"Closed"}
provides {
  cmd:mcpixel
}
requires {
  haiku >= r1beta4
  lib:libSDL2
}

package create -b -I /boot/system/apps/McPixel McPixel.hpkg
package add -C mcpixel3_haiku_x64 McPixel.hpkg *
```

It looks like they're statically linking to their own SDL2 (which is fine).  However, they're not getting any of our various un-upstreamed bugfixes.

Scratch that, McPixel 3 crashes on Haiku.        If y'all need any help or support, reach out.   alex   :at:   terarocket.io

It looks like you're statically linking libSDL2 into mcpixel.     We have some patches for our official port of 2.0.x fixing various upstream bugs you might need...

https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/blob/master/media-libs/libsdl2/patches/

Whooooo.  McPixel 3 runs on Haiku.

I can help polish the port up if you're looking for assistance @sos.  We could toss it into a installable package (distributed in a zip manually) and could provide the steps to help you do it.