> It appears on Linux that compiling 3.0 will link the "local" copies of > these libraries, no matter how much I try to stop it with config switches.
I think this is just a WIP issue - linking against the system libs (or the shared libs) works fine on 1.3.x and others so presumably will in fltk3 once we get around to it... > This is VERY bad because this code is vastly out of date and bloated, > and skips processor optimizations that the main ones have in them. > Basically on Linux and BSD, these should NEVER be used. Um, I don't understand. What's out of date? My fltk3 checkout seems to have pretty current versions of jpeg (8c) and png(1.5.4) and so on in it. Or am I missing the point? > I recommend the following fixes: > > 1. Make it impossible to compile and/or use these libraries through the > gmake system. They are only used by IDE's for systems that don't have > them. Not quite true. I often use the "built-in" image libs with make/gmake builds on WinXX/mingw deploys, and I imagine that I'm not the only one. Yes, I could (probably should) just install jpeg/png/zlib/etc in the mingw environment, but using the fltk built-ins is much easier... > 2. When they are built, merge them with the images library. This will > avoid the need for the "fltk3" prefix on their names. Fair enough. > 3. (the hard one) The systems that lack these libraries have their own > methods to read .jpeg and .png files. FLTK should just call these > methods directly, rather than (in effect) emulating Linux. Hmm, not keen. The jpeg/png libs aren't that big so I'm not sure how much we'd save, for the extra complexity if supporting a different image API. Though maybe it is trivial? What systems does that apply to? Is it Microsoft? All the systems I see on a regular basis just use libjpeg and libpng for this anyway, but I'm not all that familiar with the MS API's for image handling. SELEX Galileo Ltd Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list fltk-dev@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
