On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:16:44AM +1000, Sisyphus wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Jewell" > > >Imager or GD wants a library that wants it, I can't recall which one > >right now. > > Ok ... thanks Curtis. > > This is, of course, quite unimportant. I was just curious as to why > freeglut was being distributed when there were no Strawberry Perl > modules, as far as I knew, that needed it. (Not that any > justification for including freeglut is even needed.) > > Interestingly, both GD and Imager still load ok if libglut-0_.dll > can't be found. I don't know if that *proves* that those 2 modules > don't need libglut-0_.dll ... even if it does, I guess there may yet > be some other module included with Strawberry Perl that needs that > dll.
Imager definitely doesn't need it. I was thinking it might have been probed for by one of the configure scripts for use in the tools that come with the libraries[1], which aren't shipped with strawberry. A grep of strawberry 5.12.3.0 (64 bit) finds mentions of glut only in libglut-0_.dll and its supporting files, the SDK glut files and a dictionary file. Tony [1] eg. cjpeg, tiffdump, not that either of those need it
