[Bf-committers] TIFF support - submitted patch #2995

[Jonathan Merritt]

Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Excellent! :)
> I presume you've made this code wrapped in #ifdef for Linux only? Or 
> do  we now need to check on how the imbuf pipeline redirects to 
> libtiff or  to quicktime (on windows or osx)?


Well, without access to Windows, I can't check, but what *should* happen 
(if my current code works as expected on Windows) is that the attempt to 
dynamically load libtiff will simply fail, leaving QuickTime as the only 
option anyway.  The Windows platform part of the dynamic loading is just 
blank at the moment (ie: it fails by default, due to not making any 
attempt).

If someone adds Windows support for libtiff then I think the choice 
between QuickTime or libtiff for loading and saving will come down to 
which is listed first.  There's a set of if(){}s for loading and a 
switch(){} for saving.  That's not ideal, I guess.  Do you want me to 
make all of the libtiff code *strictly* Linux-only for now and submit 
that as another patch (it's about 10 minute's work).

Jonathan.