Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: glfw3

[Alex Charlton]

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> 1) I’m not sure entirely what you’re asking. GLFW on *nix creates the 
> standard libglfw.so, libglfw.so.3, libglfw.so.3.0, two of which are symlinks 
> to the latter. So on *nix it is certainly possible to have different versions 
> installed and just link to the one you want. The only problem with changing 
> the setup file to link to libglfw.so.3 is that it would break on Windows.
>
> If there is a standard way of conditionally executing code à la CL’s features 
> then I’d be happy to modify the setup file to ensure that it links to version 
> 3 on Unix. Otherwise, I’m not sure how you’d get it to run on the test 
> server. Do you have some way of patching eggs?
>
> 2) You’re certainly right. Thanks for catching that!

I just discovered Chicken’s features. I’ve patched the setup file so that it 
links specifically with libglfw.so.3 on *nix. So now this should be able to run 
on the test server along-side the previous glfw egg (so long as libglfw.so is 
pointing to libglfw.so.2).

-- 
Alex