[cairo] Re: Linking to Cairo 1.0.2 statically (Win32)

[Doodle]

Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:18:08 +0200, Doodle wrote:
> 
>>I was speaking about Cairo with one of the Mozilla contributors, and he
>>said that the main Mozilla guys are quite against building Mozilla in that
>>way that it would link to Cairo dynamically. They want to link to it
>>statically, to avoid version mismatch problems.
> 
> 
> Why can't they just use the cairo.dll.local trick?

I don't know, I'm not one of them, you'll have to convince them,
not me. :)

> 
> Virtually any operating system will let you ship "bundled" DLLs/DSOs which
> take priority over the system copy whilst still avoiding static linking.
> Linux lets you, Windows lets you, MacOS X lets you. 
> 
> Is OS/2 really the odd one out in this regard?

No, OS/2 can also do it with some settings. But again, Mozilla
developers want to link statically, which is problematic with the
current code version.

Doodle