[stock_toaster]

  >  You need the correct libraries and versions, but that's not a difficult problem to solve

Or just ship statically linked binaries. That seems like it would be a good solution for games.

[Mikeb85]

> Or just ship statically linked binaries. That seems like it would be a good solution for games.

Yup. That's what Steam does...

[srd]

Not under linux. It does supply it's own set of .so libs though.

[simcop2387]

That or shipping the versions used is usually the way it goes on windows. Take a look at a lot of the games on steam, and many of them will carry an OpenAL dll with them.