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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/07/2011 05:24 AM, "Torsten Hüter" wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
>
>> Is there a reason why you chose to include a copy of the glew source
>> instead of
>> using the version installed on your distro?  The reason I ask is that it
>> does
>> not build properly on Windows using MinGW/MSYS.  I download the latest
>> glew
>> source code an built as a DLL, installed it, commented out glew.c in the
>> sources list, and successfully built gal_test.exe and
>> test_rubberbanding.exe.
>> Both programs run properly on Windows.  I also validated that it still
>> builds
>> on Linux.  If there is no specific reason to include the glew source with
>> GAL,
>> I will remove it and commit the changes.
> I believe the only reason was that this version is (or was) more recent. But I also think it doesn't need to be in the distro, feel free to remove it. 
>
> Thanks,
> Torsten

If we ever need a newer version, and any of us go to the trouble of building
it, it would be nice if we tried to capture the steps to do so in one of
those CMake ExternalProject commands, and then find a way to make that
operation conditional.  The ExternalProject support can even do internet
downloads.

At least, I will make this commitment.

Dick