Static linking and scripts having to be in the same directory is problematic about lottie-converter

[ed-asriyan]

Hi!
Are you talking about the following structure:

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├── bin
│   ├── tgs_to_gif.sh
│   ├── tgs_to_png
│   ├── tgs_to_png.sh
│   └── tgs_to_webp.sh
└── src

[saltedcoffii]

I am, kind of. Have a look at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tgs-to-gif-cpp-git and see how they package it. you can see how it's not ideal.

[ed-asriyan]

I am not cmake guru. so @saltedcoffii, I would be happy if you review the pull request #75 :)

[saltedcoffii]

Alright! I'm not a cmake guru myself either but I use this program a lot and would love to learn!
I have a lot more experience with meson, if I changed the buildsystem to that, would that be okay? If not, we'll see if I can learn cmake.

[ed-asriyan]

in case of switching to meson

1. is it possible to keep the build option regarding static/dynamic linking?
2. can meson manage dependencies?
   1. if no, does it work with conan?
   2. if yes, can it manage all current dependencies the project has?

[saltedcoffii]

1. Yes. The option can then be passed to the meson binary during build
2. I believe so. I'll look into it, if I have any issues, I'll stick with cmake.

[ed-asriyan]

thank you @saltedcoffii!