[SDL] Dynamically loading SDL dlls

[Simon Roby]

Is your project open source? You don't need to provide object files if
it's open in the first place.

(I'm kinda surprised nobody mentioned that.)

On 11/1/07, Jeremy <jswigart at gmail.com> wrote:
> I mentioned that earlier. I'm not going to play the object file game either.
> It's easier to find a library that fits my needs better than maintain a
> couple hundred meg zip of object files(and libraries?) from a large project
> in the zero chance someone will want to re-link SDL. It's wasted effort. SDL
> is great, just not for my needs in this particular case. On the other hand
> I'm growing to really like what SFML has to offer as part of this
> experimentation with alternatives.
>
> J
>
>
> On 11/1/07, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:50:22PM -0700, Jeremy wrote:
> > > Yea I tried for a while last night to do the converting of SDL to a true
> > > dynamic library but it's a nightmare so I gave up. I don't need SDL that
> > > badly to jump through those sort of hoops with a middle man dll. I've
> begun
> > > converting my SDL usage to SFML, which I now prefer over SDL for my
> > > situation, mainly due to static linkage and being in C++, and its
> simplicity
> > > got me up and running very quickly.
> >
> > OOC, why didn't you statically link against SDL?
> > (You could adhere to the LGPL by providing objects against which SDL could
> > be re-statically-linked.)
> >
> > So confused...  but also barely paying attention :)
> >
> > -bill!
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