[tuhopuu-devel] on Imagemagick...

[Chris Want]

> Hey Hos!
> (somehow replying your post didnt get on this board... so here)

desaster: can you make the mailing list set a Reply-To
address on mailouts?

> Tuhopuu is (fully) supporting Imagemagick as well, carefully hidden
> behind #ifdef WITH_IMAGEMAGICK notices. I stopped working
> with this library because;
> - for windows it requires over fifteen extra DLL's,
> - a winbinary statically linked with Imagemagick makes Blender +5.5 mb
> - and i have no clue on how to integrate it for other platforms.
> 
> SirDude has expressed his interest in giving it a try, so for the time
> being I thought is was a reasonable solution to work with Freeimage.
> Don't let the project being dead distract you... it's a very stable and
> robust library and doesn't require any windows stuff to do it's thing.
> (I still hope someone gets it working under other os'es, because then
> it would be the coolest for Freeimage to get adopted by Blender...)

If you like Freeimage then I say go for it ... did the
scheme for storing external binary libs sound reasonable
to you? (and to others -- this would take some CVS admin
level modifications.)

Maybe I'll look into the current imagemagick support a
little when I have a moment ... it would be nice if
the whole lib didn't have to get compiled in for a
static link, or if there was a way to test the
existence of the various dynamic libs at run time
so that all of the dlls wouldn't be needed (or any
for that matter).

Chris