[Openal-devel] cmake support added

[Prakash Punnoor]

Adam D. Moss schrieb:
> Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> 
>>OK, I think the main problem is PIC. So I wonder whether the old build
>>system was wrong or rather "suboptimal". As far as I understood, it
>>compiled code PIC and made a shared and static lib out of it. But the
>>static one doesn't have to be PIC. Esp on low register machines like x86
>>we lose one precious register (ebx) - which is bad performance wise -
>>esp as OpenAL is written for realtime performance using least resources.
> 
> 
> On the one hand you're right, I think.  On the other hand, no-one
> in their right mind statically links OpenAL.

True, esp out of licensing reasons (static link -> open source due to
LGPL). So perhaps we should stop building the static lib by default to
not encourage people to use the static lib? People -
who-know-what-they-do (or at least think so;-) could still configure and
compile it for themselves.

BTW, life for me (->cmake) would be a lot easier it we renamed the
static lib. (Windows requires another name for the static lib, as well,
if we look at the big picture...)

bye,
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