[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] win64 packaging: fix comment

[Rafaël Carré]

Le Sun, 6 Nov 2011 04:58:26 +0100,
Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> a écrit :

> On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:17:43AM +0100, Rafaël Carré wrote :
> > vlc | branch: master | Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org> | Sat Nov  5 21:06:37 2011 -0400| [dde3c27230cb444d07cc22f3c7835c6e5db88a9e] | committer: Rafaël Carré
> > 
> > win64 packaging: fix comment
> > 
> > It is not clear that static linking is superior in our case
> > Shared linking could even reduce package size (only one copy of libstdc++ shipped)
> > 
> > 21:04 < jon_y> libtool prevents static linking if you are working with dlls, it is by
> >                design
> 
> Duh... This is ridiculous. This goes beyond everything we've done so far
> on Win32...

What have we done so far?

Statically linking several times the same library seems backward to me.

But this makes me think of avcodec/avformat; why did we merge the modules instead of shipping av*.dll ?

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Rafaël Carré