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Re: [isugamedev-devel] imagelib
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From: Kevin M. <ke...@vr...> - 2002-01-16 20:54:15
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why does it matter if we link against ms DLLs? just because M$ is dumb, why should we be? the DLL is easily available, and I think can be distributed with the games we make. standard C++ is perfectly valid, and is a good thing to use. We could convert what I've got over to use read(), open(), and close(), but yuk. It doesn't matter a lot to me, but... shouldn't std:: be inlined? maybe not the iostreams, huh? I still don't like using non-C++ just because of M$ dumbness with their DLLs. Seems like we're screwing the elegant-ness of our code just to avoid some restriction their compiler imposes on us. do they have a static version of that DLL? that could solve it maybe. I agree with you, few depends is exactly what I was going for. but I don't take that literally. I take it to mean only few _third_party_ depends. my philosohy is, if it comes with the compiler, you can always distribute it with the code, no big deal, if it annoys you, choose a different compiler.. :) otherwise, avoid other 3rd party libs as much as possible. my PCX, SGI, BMP, TGA loaders are all stand-alone. the PNG one I wrote needs zlib only... kevin On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Chad Austin wrote: > Kevin, what license is your code under? > > Also, I forgot something I'd like out of the library: > - small footprint (doesn't need to be excessively small, but I don't use the > standard C++ library in Windows for this reason, as it incurs a dependency on > msvcp60.dll) > - as few dependencies as possible in the core library (libmng (which subsumes > libpng, zlib, and jpeglib) is okay, but something like DirectX or OpenGL isn't) > > _______________________________________________ > ISUGameDev-devel mailing list > ISU...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isugamedev-devel > -- @--@---@---@----@-----@------@------@-----@----@---@---@--@ Kevin Meinert __ _ __ http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/~kevn \ || \| \ / ` Virtual Reality Applications Center \ ||.-'|--\\ Howe Hall, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa \|| \| \`__, ----------------------------------------------------------- |
