Thank you so much billotronic. A few questions:
2. extracted files are shared objects and not executables?
Whats wrong with this?
5. you get two points for them at least launching with my default libs installed
I don't understand this one, what libs did you replace with your default ones, and what got two points?
Also do you have any suggestions?
well #2 struck me as odd and it also means that they have to be started from a command line and not the easy double click
#5 mind you, I do not know anything about building distributable programs for linux, but in the past I usually would have to install say, a specific version of boost or whatever that the bin was linked against. (which is why most people don't bother building bin's for linux)