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> One day, game developers will package static binaries

Wouldn't you still need at least runtime linking (dlopen) to link to OpenGL/Vulkan/etc.?

I've seen independent OpenGL libraries packaged along with games, so, I wouldn't think so no.

I doubt that you did since OpenGL implementations are hardware-specific. Perhaps you mean utility libraries building on top of OpenGL such as GLEW or GLUT.

Some libraries (OpenGL, Vulkan, ALSA, ..) the shared library provides the lowest stable cross-hardware interface there is so linking the library makes no sense.

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