[Development] New configuration system docs and FBX issues

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On martes, 2 de mayo de 2017 08:47:34 -03 Sean Harmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 01/05/2017 14:16, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Monday, 1 May 2017 03:17:23 -03 Sean Harmer wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> is there any documentation for the new configuration system please?
> >> 
> >> My specific issue is that I need a config test that uses different
> >> library names on each platform and I can't see how to achieve this. On
> >> windows I want the FBX config test in Qt 3D to link against the static
> >> FBX library libfbxsdk-md.lib whereas on linux it would be
> >> libfbxsdk-static.a and on macOS libfbxsdk.a.
> > 
> > Please make sure we're abe to link against the dynamic version of that
> > library on Linux.
> 
> Why the preference for dynamic linking here? It's another file to have
> to distribute? I don't particularly mind either way but is there a
> policy for such things?

Possibly because it makes it easier for distributions to create patches to 
link against the system version.


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