Re: [A] External GIF support [Request for Comment]

I tried a native build but I didn't follow quite the procedure you might have wanted me to do I think. When I downloaded giflib I saw that it wanted to be "configured". I ruled that out since I didn't wanted to get any cygwin dependencies. (But maybe GnuWin32-tools can be used instead to get a native build!? See below.) Going for the native build I instead wanted to find a prebuilt package so that I didn't have to struggle with building giflib as well. Luckily there is such a package in the GnuWin32-kit. So I ended up with giflib in Program\GnuWin32 and the other libs in src from our packaging. After some editing of custom.inc it builds and runs. So what is the conclusion? I guess if giflib is included in the library package we supply, so that it is unpacked with the rest in src, the is quite easy. I haven't checked GnuWin32-kit for the other libs, but if they are there, what about using that instead for our own packaging? I did get a dependency to giflib4.dll that irritates a little. That dll needs to be handled in an install. Note: The build was performed with the tools from VS 2005. Yours -- %% Mats