Re: [AD] 4.3.10plus build system

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2007-12-27, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 10:26 +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> > On 2007-12-26, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 10:26 +0100, Milan Mimica wrote:
> > > > Next I'm planning to add is loadpng and jpgalleg. Any objections?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > jpgalleg is not maintained and broken on 64-bit system from what I
> > > remember - so I'd say don't bother with it.
> > 
> > I sent a patch to Angelo for 64-bit systems a while ago, so at least
> > that part is easy to fix.  The lack of an additional dependency is quite
> > nice (for Windows users).
> 
> Took me less than a minute to find and install them (at least with
> mingw): http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/jpeg.htm

Yes, mingw is usually fine.

> >  There used to be files that jpgalleg wouldn't
> > load, but I think that's no longer a problem?
> > 
> 
> I don't think I've ever encountered such files with the latest version -
> but see my earlier reply. (I.e. if dependencies would be more important
> than robustness and performance, we also should prefer alpng over
> loadpng..)

Given the number of security advisories for libpng, maybe we should ;-)

jpgalleg does a good job on coverage and is okay for performance *and*
already exists.  I seem to recall an old libjpeg wrapper, from the djgpp
days though.

Peter