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If you work on a non-Windows platform, then many executables will rely on libraries provided by the package manager. Your code might not be using that library
by MereInterest 8y ago
If you work on a non-Windows platform, then many executables will rely on libraries provided by the package manager. Your code might not be using that library from within a different process, but that doesn't mean that somebody else isn't.
- mehrdadn 8y agoYeah sorry I wasn't clear, I was talking about Windows since this is the approach Windows takes. And somehow (perhaps mistakenly) I assumed "executable" meant EXE, not DLL (since I refer to the two as "binaries"). Otherwise yeah I agree [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17175361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17175361
- pjmlp 8y agoNot all non-Windows platforms have package managers, or are UNIX clones.