Re: [AD] Finding a solution to the Windows problem

[SiegeLord <siegelordex@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/11/2015 11:03 AM, Max Savenkov wrote:
> I keep wondering... Most Allegro dependencies has CMake files (official
> or unofficial). For some of the others, it should be easy to write one.
> Having all dependencies compile via CMake should make building Allegro
> for MSVC fairly trivial, no? The only problem I know of is FreeType,
> which has its own build system, but it has support for VS, and it should
> be easy to write a CMake file that just calls this build script with
> proper arguments.

Yeah, that's what I had in mind. Making everything use CMake would make 
MSVC support pretty easy.

> Also, there is always an option to fix dependencies version, and compile
> all of them by hand, and then just put ready-made binaries somewhere.
> How often do we need a newer version of FreeType or libpng, really? It
> is even possible to do it for all versions of MSVC in use (I'd say drop
> 2005 and 2008, but support 2010-2013/2015).

Yeah, that's another option although I found it difficult to compile 
some of those even once, hah.

-SL