Please add GLFW

[mohawk2]

As discussed on StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry#233 (comment)

Would it be possible to include a compiled version of GLFW in Strawberry, at least the PDL edition? I intend soon to switch PDL::Graphics::TriD to use that. It would then be possible (at least for PDL purposes) to drop FreeGLUT, though again on current plans there would need to be an overlap with both.

[shawnlaffan]

The build is relatively straightforward. Extract from build.sh diff below as notes.

Still need to sort out the license files and any other special packing needs.

+glfw-3*)
+cd $WRKDIR/$PACK
+#  zip file has on extra dir
+cd $PACK
+sed -i "s/set(GLFW_LIB_NAME glfw3)/set(GLFW_LIB_NAME glfw3${DLLSUFFIX})/" src/CMakeLists.txt
+
+mkdir _build
+cd _build
+
+xxrun cmake -G 'MSYS Makefiles' -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DGLFW_BUILD_DOCS=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$OUT ..
+xxrun make
+xxrun make install
+
+;;
+

[mohawk2]

If it helps, it's on nuget at https://www.nuget.org/packages/glfw/ - there's a Chocolatey package too but of a 10-year-old version. The licencing stuff I just went through with Debian packaging, see https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libopengl-glfw-perl/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/copyright?ref_type=heads

What I'm actually after is that the CPAN library OpenGL::GLFW also be bundled in Strawberry, since we'll be switching to use that.

[shawnlaffan]

Thanks. The license note concerns setting up the packaging script to find the correct license file and include it in the zip file.

I can look at packaging OpenGL::GLFW once this is sorted.

[mohawk2]

Further notes: PDL::Graphics::TriD now depends on OpenGL::GLFW so a PDL edition would need this executed.

Also for Windows, I made this update to the CI using vcpkg to build/install GLFW, which with the right tweaks to install stuff (including the .pc file) into the Strawberry build directory would probably provide a pattern for simplifying a lot of extlib stuff: Perl-GPU/devops@f7a60a8