[Mingw-cross-env-list] using system vs bundled libs (was Re: mxe for windows 7 (64 bit))

[Tony Theodore]

On 28/06/2013, at 11:36 PM, Martin Müllenhaupt <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 22.06.2013 16:06, Tony Theodore wrote:
>> and some more of the VTK_USE_SYSTEM_* options need to be set, but otherwise 
>> this seems ready to go and plays nicely with a side-by-side install of vtk5.
>> 
> I created a pull request enabling the VTK_USE_SYSTEM_* options:
> https://github.com/mxe/mxe/pull/212

Thanks for that, though I wonder if we should keep using the bundled libs 
instead?

>> The examples are building successfully here for all three targets with 
>> "-DBUILD_EXAMPLES=ON", though I didn't try to build them by hand or execute 
>> them.
> I had to switch the examples off again, because of some linking errors
> (e.g. tiff->lzma).

The vtk team has gone to the trouble of packaging third party libs and making 
sure they work, maybe using the system libs is actually a regression.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Tony