[vlc-devel] [PATCH 02/14] contrib: SDL_image: don't build for Mac OSX

[Vittorio Giovara]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> Le lundi 30 juin 2014, 15:04:22 Vittorio Giovara a écrit :
>> I see no point in fixing its build when we don't use the
>> library anyway
>
> SDL image is (rather obviously) used to decode images. As much as I'd like to
> get rid of SDL, I think the VLC code base has no credible alternative plugin
> so far.

True that, but in extras/package/macosx/configure.sh sdl is disabled
with --disable-sdl, so I agree with the patch author that it makes no
sense to block contrib compilation for something that it's not used in
the end.
-- 
Vittorio