After messing with trying to build FLTK on Windows, I really want to include a "golden" version of the FLTK source in our tree and have the library optionally built using the CMake build system (using a USE_INCLUDED_FLTK option.) I'm more than happy to write this code and do the integration.
If people don't want to use the in-tree version, they don't have to, but trying to document a reproducible build procedure is pretty much impossible for Windows right now, because building FLTK requires the Visual Studio IDE. This precludes being able to build a 64-bit version unless you are using the "paid" version of Visual C++, and it's not straightforward even then. It's also really a pain to build FLTK on Unix. FLTK isn't using a modern version of autotools, so out-of-tree builds and other stuff doesn't work. I am generally OK with introducing external dependencies that are readily available in binary library form on all supported platforms (as is the case for libjpeg-turbo), but FLTK isn't even generally available on Linux. I am not in favor of hard external dependencies that have to be built from source, particularly when the build procedure for those dependencies is not straightforward and we're requiring custom patches at the moment. With GnuTLS, having a somewhat esoteric build procedure is OK, because that is not a critical component for TigerVNC. FLTK is. It needs to be easier to build. I've been including FLTK in the VirtualGL source for years, with no issues. It's not security-critical code, so we don't really need to focus on "maintaining" it in our tree. We would just need to upgrade it if something didn't work. DRC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
