Re: [AD] Windows binary suggestion

[SiegeLord <siegelordex@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't mind doing it, although in my mind, once you have a dll, it 
doesn't matter how many there are: i.e. I'd just use static linking in 
this case.

Maybe there's something to be said about making statically linked 
Allegro dlls, but I don't really know what's best. It's a bit of a pain 
to have to make 6-12 different kinds of binaries because people have 
this weird issue about dlls (shouldn't a professional game use and 
installer and just place a shortcut on the desktop, thus making the user 
not care about what actually is inside the game directory?).

As for additional formats, we can either document that only those few 
are guaranteed to be cross platform, or remove those extra formats on 
Windows. I think that, with care, it's still possible to create a 
cross-platform game that loads different formats on different platforms.

It is awkward with that 8 bit png limitation, however.

-SL

On 08/02/2015 07:35 AM, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> I think that's risky for two reasons:
>
> 1. The native loaders understand additional formats, so someone might go
> and read e.g. gifs then be surprised they don't work on other platforms.
>
> 2. The native loaders only support a limited subset of .png (e.g.
> paletted ones don't work in 8-bit mode) - so for consistency it would be
> better to always use libpng unless you really know what you are doing.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 3:48 AM, Trent Gamblin <trent@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:trent@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     I think next time the Windows binaries are built they should be
>     build with
>     -DWANT_NATIVE_IMAGE_LOADER, so libpng/libjpeg aren't needed.
>
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