While poring over thread after thread dealing with build dependencies on Windows I had a weird thought a while back: computers are fast these days, why not just build everything (including 3rd party dependencies) from source?
The way I see it, issues on Windows are going to get worse far before they get any better. Issues like: 1. Differing compiler versions (MSVC 7.1/8/9, MinGW 3.4/4.4) 2. The need for Debug libraries with certain compilers 3. The need for 32 and/or 64-bit libraries 4. The occasional need for a complete static build 5. The need/desire for some people to compile with /MT or _SECURE_SCL=0 on MSVC ...are likely not to be going away anytime soon and they can create a confusing ecosystem. Also, security issues & library bugfixes tend to get ignored once someone has that prebuilt library sitting off in CM somewhere. So I cmakeified libpng, zlib, and libjpeg (building on some work previously done by Luigi Calori and others) and wrapped them in ZIP files called CMakeports. The three put together take about 5 seconds total to build on my 3 year old core2 duo. They are available at the website below. http://code.google.com/p/cmakeports/ I've integrated and tested* the 3 ports with OSG using osgviewer --image, and things seem to be working fine. I'd like to submit this to osg-submissions assuming there is enough interest in the idea. I'm doubtful this could satisfy 100% of the dependencies people might want to use with the OSG, but I'm optimistic it could cover the major ones (png, jpg, zlib, tiff, & freetype seem like no-brainers to me). * I have tested: MSVC9 32-bit DYNAMIC_OPENSCENEGRAPH=ON (Debug & Release) MinGW 3.4. * I have partially tested: MSVC9 32-bit DYNAMIC_OPENSCENEGRAPH=OFF (code compiles but haven't tried building/linking a custom viewer) * I have not tested: MSVC8 MSVC9 64-bit MinGW 4.4.0 -- Philip Lowman
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