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It's time we started thinking about this. How do we want to name the
actual library files for 5.0. Here are some thoughts.
Unix
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liballegro.so (symlink)
liballegro.so.5.0 (symlink)
liballegro.so.5.0.1
liballegro_audio.so (symlink)
liballegro_audio.so.5.0 (symlink)
liballegro_audio.so.5.0.1
...
which does not conflict with A4, which has:
liballeg.so (symlink)
liballeg.so.4.4 (symlink)
liballeg.so.4.4.0
The pkg-config files would be:
allegro-5.0.pc
allegro_audio-5.0.pc
...
which does not conflict with A4, which has:
allegro.pc
Windows
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allegro-5.0.dll
allegro_audio-5.0.dll
...
liballegro-5.0.dll.a (mingw)
liballegro_audio-5.0.dll.a (mingw)
...
allegro-5.0.lib (msvc)
allegro_audio-5.0.lib (msvc)
...
I'm worried that the version suffixes might be a bit annoying, as you
have to link with a number of libraries and you don't have pkg-config to
help you. Ideally the DLL would have the version suffix but not the
import libraries, but I haven't figured out how to do that with CMake.
At worst I could add a custom rule to rename(copy) the import libraries
after they are built.
A4 has:
alleg44.dll
liballeg44.dll.a
The version number on the import library was not intentional, but it's
a bit late now.
Mac OS X
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Same as generic Unix for shared libraries (.so -> .dylib)
I'm not sure how the frameworks should be named. A4 has taken
Allegro.framework. Maybe:
Allegro-5.0.framework
AllegroAudio-5.0.framework
...
Peter