On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 07:35:13 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
ah, and another thing: freeimage sux for GNU/Linux. it looks
completely
alien and no sane GUI software requires it. i didn't looked at
the
code, but i hope that image loading is well abstracted in
DlangUI? if
it is, i can try to write a loaders for png and jpg (jpg? in
GUI? holy
heavens, why?!).
it's better to check if the system has the corresponding
libraries with
corresponding versions (imlib2 rocks, for example), but i
suppose that
dub cannot into configure checks, am i right?
Initially, I've used libpng for loading images.
But it is compatible only with some particular version of
libpng.so
API version is passed somwhere in calls, and doesn't work with
updated library.
I've tried to find some replacement for it, and found FreeImage
(there was Derelict suport for it, and it was used in some D
projects).
Probably, it makes sense to move to SDL_image. But it looks like
it requires SDL as dependency.
Does it work ok on linux?
Let me check imlib2 as well.
