Re: [fluid-dev] FluidSynth 1.1.2 release planning

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Wednesday, July 14, 2010, Sven Meier wrote:
> building fluidsynth with MinGW results in "libfluidsynth.dll",
> previously the library was named "libfluidsynth-1.dll". Is this change
> intended?

I suppose that you are testing the CMake build system in windows with the 
mingw compiler. I didn't realize about the name change, so I don't think that 
it was intended. The new naming scheme comes from using the same 
specification to generate all the project files and makefiles in all 
platforms, so the library name would be "libfluidsynth" everywhere.

Consistent naming may be good, but at the same time there is the problem that 
windows DLL's don't have a SONAME atribute like the Unix libraries, so it 
would make sense to include the LT_VERSION_CURRENT number in the library 
name, like the autotools does in windows resulting in "libfluidsynth-1.dll". 
This may be done also in all platforms, including Linux, if we want. It would 
be like, for instance, the "dbus-1" library.

By the way, CMake is currently generating a fake ".la" file for the library. 
This is a deprecated libtool file, and I would like to comment out the 
generation leaving it it place just in case somebody needs it.

There are also different library names for debug/release versions. The MSVS 
project files in the SVN repository generate a "libfluidsynth.dll" for the 
release configuration, and "libfluidsynth_debug.dll" for debug. The MSVS 
projects generated by CMake create the same library name "fluidsynth.dll" for 
all configurations. It may be possible to change this behavior if needed.

What do you think?

Regards,
Pedro