Distributing implib?

[Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 28 April 2014 at 03:09:32 UTC, Trent Forkert wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 April 2014 at 17:53:18 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am doing some updates to the C back end of my binding, and I 
>> wanted to know what it would entail to be able to distribute 
>> implib along with my CMake things. I was just thinking that it 
>> would be nice to automatically produce .lib files when it 
>> builds 32bit libs on Windows systems. According to the license 
>> it comes with, I would need to obtain a redistribution license 
>> for this. Anyone else had any experience with that?
>>
>> Thanks much!
>>     Jeremy
>
> Nick already answered your question, but I have another 
> suggestion for you.
>
> Set things up to look for implib (or perhaps coffimplib[1]), 
> and complain if CMake can't find it. This tool should be part 
> of the user's tools and environment, not part of your project.
>
> This may be my Linux bias talking, but I would tend to not want 
> to ship binaries as part of my source. The good thing about 
> CMake is that it can help you deal with your dependencies in a 
> sane way.
>
>  - Trent
>
> [1]ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/coffimplib.zip


That's not a bad idea, but it would suck for people that might 
not know what the heck implib even is and make them have to 
search for it. I'd like them to be able to build the library with 
the right import libraries right out of the box.