[Bf-committers] libtiff linking

[Campbell Barton]

quicktime/tiff wouldn't support tiff mipmap's and tiling so we could
include on all OS's now.
Wait until Brecht merges his mipmap commit into trunk before attempting.

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Jonathan Merritt
<merritt at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 19:30 +1000, Matt Ebb wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is there any reason we still dynamically load libtiff?, Why don't we
>> > static link like OpenEXR, or link normally as we do with libjpeg.
>>
>> I could be wrong, but from memory there were concerns about the size
>> of the library when it was first introduced.. But it seems to be
>> linked statically here on osx anyway, with no big problem really.
>
> Spot on - at the time, libtiff was mainly required for Linux, since
> QuickTime was handling TIFF under OSX and Windows.  I wrote the dynamic
> load and stub methods, and needed a lot of help for the
> platform-specific library detection.  I would love to see all that
> disappear in favour of normal linking (static or dynamic). :-)
>
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> Jonathan Merritt
> Research Fellow, Veterinary Science
> The University of Melbourne
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