[Development] Is the MNG format supported in official installer?

Denis Shienkov denis.shienkov at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 08:27:58 CEST 2016


 > That's because we removed the bundled copy of libmng.

Then, please, adjust the documentation, because currently it confused users:

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtimageformats-index.html

since MNG is not 'bundled' anymore.

 > You need to install it yourself first.

Ohh... seems it is problem (especially with MSVC), because libmng 
depends on others libraries (as I see).

But, thanks anyway.

27.07.2016 18:50, Thiago Macieira пишет:
> On quarta-feira, 27 de julho de 2016 15:06:29 PDT Denis Shienkov wrote:
>> Ahh... seems, the config.tests for MNG fails..
> That's because we removed the bundled copy of libmng. You need to install it
> yourself first.
>
> We did that because our copy was very old and, at Qt 5.6 times, we thought
> that libmng and jasper development had completely stalled, including for
> security issues. Turns out there's a newer copy in
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/libmng/files/libmng-devel/
>
> But now the burden is on you to compile it and install it before
> qtimageformats.
>




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