On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 16:23 +0200, Petr Pytelka wrote: > FreeImage have also one discutable feature: > Most common libraries (libjpeg, libtiff..) are part of the library and > library is staticly linked against these libraries. It is good because > library uses only part of the code. This way are application quite > stable with ability to control settings of all used libraries (codecs). > Small disadvantage is that it does not use shared libraries as libjpeg > etc. It is of course possible to change it. > As a side point, I'd *strongly* recommend avoiding doing this. image libraries are security sensitive; if you statically link to them, you don't pick up security fixes. If you cut-and-paste them into your distribution you have even more problems picking up security fixes. (Obviously, Windows, without the idea of a system install of a 3rd party DLL, makes doing the right thing harder.) Regards, Owen
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