Yes. I think that's ultimately the difficult thing with distributing static binaries in Linux. Most systems include shared objects because they're more efficient space-wise and less redundant. It just makes sense. I think you might need to go and build all of the Allegro dependencies statically first... Which will take a bit of time and learning, and then potentially keep them up-to-date in case there are any serious vulnerabilities in the old code... So it's quite the headache. It basically eliminates one of the advantages that Linux had over Windows because you are forced to go and do everything manually again.

Have you considered just shipping the shared objects with your game instead? I think you should be able to bundle all of the shared objects together, and if necessary, add a shell script to setup the environment to use them. That might be less work than achieving a static build. The static build will probably be more reliable because it will probably tolerate different runtime versions better, but if it's too much work to achieve it I'm not sure it matters.

It doesn't look like you have PKG_CONFIG_PATH right. Notice how there's very little output? Something seems wrong. Wasn't it export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib64 you wanted (emphasis on lib64)?

I think you might have better luck getting real time help. If you join #allegro on http://webchat.freenode.net/ (or use your favorite IRC client) then you can see if anybody is available to help you troubleshoot. That way we can get immediate feedback on the output of commands and that might help to get it cleared up. I wonder if your installation is incomplete/mixed up. Or something else along those lines. But really libX11 should be something that Slackware has installed.. You probably needed it to even build Allegro. You shouldn't need any special options to find it. That's why I'm so confused. Something isn't adding up. Anyway, I think the -lX11, etc., would have to be the output of `pkg-config --static --libs allegro`. But right above your g++ line it isn't... So I don't understand.

Edgar, I remember your statement. I did download and install 64 bit versions last week I think.

I agree with you and Bam, something isn’t right in the overall environment. I know I’ve got some 64 lib and some are 32. I install Alienbobs 32compat packs when I installed Slackware 14.2. That included gcc/g++ 32. So now I don’t know which is calling what. I’m going to go through everything to see what is what.

One question, is Allegro 32bit only or could be 64?

Thanks