[Openexr-devel] OpenEXR 1.6.0, library issues under Windows

[Ben Ochoa]

I've been using OpenEXR 1.4.0 in Windows applications for the past year 
and just tried OpenEXR 1.6.0.  I'm encountering some issues using the 
1.6.0 libraries in my applications due to conflicting release and debug 
libraries.  I believe that a different directory structure and file 
naming convention would resolve these issues.

For OpenEXR 1.4.0, I use the `pre-compiled for Windows, Visual Studio 
.NET 2005' package.  The 1.4.0 pre-compiled package placed the .lib and 
.dll files in the lib and bin directories, and named the files according 
to the four possible library configurations (e.g., for Half, there is 
Half.lib (static release), Half_d.lib (static debug), Half_dll.lib and 
Half_dll.dll (DLL release), and Half_dll_d.lib and Half_dll_d.dll (DLL 
debug).  For my applications, I always linked to either the static or 
static debug libraries for the respective release or debug build of my 
applications.

Since a similar pre-compiled package is not currently available for 
OpenEXR 1.6.0, I compiled it from source using the vc8 solution. 
Compiling 1.6.0 from source only provides configurations for creating 
DLLs.  Although it creates debug and release libraries in different 
directories, the file names are the same (e.g., for Half, there is 
lib\Release\Half.lib and bin\Release\Half.dll (DLL), and 
lib\Debug\Half.lib and \bin\Debug\Half.dll (DLL debug).  It would be 
great if the solution could be modified to create a directory structure 
and file naming convention similar to 1.4.0, doing away with the Release 
and Debug subdirectories, and placing both debug and release files in 
the bin and lib directories, but with different names.  It would be nice 
if the solution also contained configurations for building debug and 
release static libraries, again placing them in the same bin and lib 
directories.

I don't know Visual Studio well enough to make these changes myself, but 
perhaps someone else does.  Would anyone else benefit from these changes?

Thanks,
Ben