Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] using system vs bundled libs (was Re: mxe for windows 7 (64 bit))

[Tony Theodore]

On 02/07/2013, at 3:46 AM, Martin Müllenhaupt <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 29.06.2013 18:07, Tony Theodore wrote:
>> Thanks for that, though I wonder if we should keep using the bundled libs 
>> instead?
>> The vtk team has gone to the trouble of packaging third party libs and 
>> making sure they work, maybe using the system libs is actually a regression.
> 
> I agree, that using the packaged libs would save us further trouble.
> 
> But I once had an issue with a packaged version of pthread and linking
> my app against mxe's pthread at the same time because of multiple
> definition of the symbols.
> So I looked in the source:
> All libraries which I used (expat, freetype, hdf5, jpeg, libxml2,
> theora, png, tiff and zlib) contain a vtk_libname_mangle.h which
> prefixes all exported symbols.
> 
> So I guess there should be no multiple symbol definitions because of vtk.
> 
> The only reason left for using mxes system libs would be bugfixes, which
> I think don't outweigh the problem of keeping vtk compatible with mxe's
> up-to-date libs.

Thanks for the feedback, we'll stick with the bundled libs then.

Cheers,

Tony