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If I have a vendor library (say libvendor.so) that I want my package to link to, what is the "right way" to bundle that inside my package? My ideal outcome would be that the package can be installed from tarball without having to worry about installing anything to /usr/lib or tweaking some systemwide variables. This isn't for...

...and load the functions you need using GetProcAddress. Another way is to create a dummy dll against which you can link. You need winedump and winebuild for it. This process is documented at an external site: http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/WineLib#Calling_a_Native_Windows_dll_from_Linux (see the libvendor part)