Incidentally, while investing this further, I noticed the same scenario is the case for libGL.so - again, it doesn't really make sense to load this using dlopen at runtime. Can you add an option to link it at compile time?

We typically dynamically load all shared libraries at runtime, this allows us to ship SDL on a platform where some functionality may not be available, without rebuilding it. The LOADSO support is available on every platform SDL supports.

I'm not opposed to a patch that optionally links those libraries, however.

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