Re: [Coapp-developers] dynamic loading

2013-06-04 Thread Vincent Povirk
> I'm probably misunderstanding how this works, but why can't libpng for > example, be an optional dependency for the SDL package? It could, if I built it with dynamic loading and if nuget supported optional dependencies. I'm just not sure if the dynamic loading has enough advantages in practice t

Re: [Coapp-developers] dynamic loading

2013-06-03 Thread Adam Baxter
On 4 June 2013 01:02, Garrett Serack wrote: > I have no problem with that. > > Really, if we want to support an option, that ends up being a custom pivot > for that library... and obviously multiplies the package size out > considerably. > > I'm probably misunderstanding how this works, but why c

Re: [Coapp-developers] dynamic loading

2013-06-03 Thread Garrett Serack
@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Vincent Povirk Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2013 11:00 AM To: coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Coapp-developers] dynamic loading SDL_image has the ability to load image libraries like libpng and libjpeg on demand, using a preprocessor define (e.g

[Coapp-developers] dynamic loading

2013-06-01 Thread Vincent Povirk
SDL_image has the ability to load image libraries like libpng and libjpeg on demand, using a preprocessor define (e.g. LOAD_PNG_DYNAMIC) indicating the dll filename to load. This functionality is not required (it can link these libraries normally), and I've opted to ignore it for now. Do we want t