DXTn/S3TC in d3dx9

[Henri Verbeet]

On 31 March 2018 at 04:20, Alistair Leslie-Hughes
<leslie_alistair at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/03/18 04:23, Matteo Bruni wrote:
>> I have some patches for that. In the current version libtxc_dxtn is
>> put under libs/, so that it's also usable from wined3d. I also have
>> (previous) versions of the patch just storing the code under
>> dlls/d3dx9_36/ or loading it as a .so but, having seen all of them, I
>> think I prefer the libs/ solution.
>> That said, I'm totally open to discussion about which library to use,
>> how to integrate it and which patches to pick. I haven't looked into
>> libsquish a lot but I thought it was C++?
> libsquish is C++, so it's not going to be of much use.  I like the
> idea of having it in lib, it will solve the issue of distro's not having
> that package available any more. (Debian, Arch).
>
While we may question the choice of language, for an external library
that shouldn't be an issue, as long as we can get the upstream project
to provide a C API. It would be a minor inconvenience when importing
the source into the Wine tree, but libsquish is not a large library. A
motivated developer could probably get rid of the C++ bits over a
weekend.