If you are talking about static linking, I'm not doing that. Eventually, I will make the game into a package so it can auto-install dependencies.
You don't need to statically link. You can distribute the dynamic libraries with the game. Appimages do this for example.
>app images
EWWWWWWWWW. But I don't know why you would do that. Linux distros have package managers.
I'd rather just have a list of dependencies to paste into the terminal, especially if a lib will potentially be used by other applications on the computer.