Question to the Linux users

[Travis Cobbs]

It sounds like you're already aware of many of the problems. Please note that both zlib and libpng can be easily compiled into static libraries, so even if you can't track down pre-built static binaries, it's quite easy to create them. The downside of doing it that way is that you don't get future security fixes, which would automatically happen when you use shared libraries. The upside is that your executable will continue to work even if the OS decides to update to a new major version of these libraries without providing the old version as a fallback (which happened to me with libjpeg). However, the security issue should only be a potential problem if you load user-specified PNG files (which I would suspect you wouldn't do at the moment). That could happen in the future, though, if a texture mapping extension to LDraw ever becomes ratified.