From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] w32: add support for recent PNG library version >= 1.5 Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:21:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83vc0cbhph.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y55he51l.wl%claudio.bley@gmail.com> <83hac2fzkl.fsf@gnu.org> <87iowgv54e.wl%claudio.bley@gmail.com> <83wqkwdnrn.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjpqylam.wl%claudio.bley@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383297720 5655 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2013 09:22:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 09:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Claudio Bley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 01 10:22:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VcAvX-0005vt-2D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:21:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcAvW-00082D-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 05:21:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54202) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcAvO-0007uZ-Jl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 05:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcAvJ-0000wc-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 05:21:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:56054) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcAvJ-0000wX-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 05:21:45 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVK00M00VAWD400@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:21:44 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVK00M0SVC7D900@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:21:44 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87zjpqylam.wl%claudio.bley@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164789 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:50:57 +0100 > From: Claudio Bley > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > I'm building with CMake and that's what the CMake builds produce. > > > > Worth writing to the maintainers about, IMO, since CMake is not the > > standard build method (AFAIK). > > On w32 it is probably more standard than building with autotools, IMO. I doubt that. But I won't argue. > It also begs the question what the most reasonable name would be, > ie. what's the point of duplicating the version after a dash? That's why I suggested to write to the maintainers. > Seems it's only because of libtool, which is probably not really > relevant on w32 anyway. libtool _is_ relevant to w32 because many packages use it to link against external libraries. > > > If you download the release tarball (lpng166.7z) for win32, the DLL > > > produced is also called libpng16.dll. > > > > If you build with CMake or if you build with the usual "configure && make"? > > Neither, they support building with different compilers by copying a > Makefile from the "scripts" subdir to the project root dir. The w32 > "tarballs" don't even have a configure script. Strange distribution policy, IMO.