Allow compiling dependencies for codecs into single library about sail HOT 2 CLOSED

Thanks for the idea! 👍 I understand the problem and I can recommended to try alternative ways to achieve it. Sail is a simple and a portable library, not a build system. I don't like the idea to make a library have build system attributes like FreeImage does. This way we end up having outdated external dependencies and a library hell. I prefer using external build systems for that. For example, you can try compiling sail as a shared library with combined codecs enabled(SAIL_COMBINED_CODECS=ON), and against the static vcpkg triplet. This way all external dependencies will be compiled into the combined codecs library sail-codecs.dll. This solution is still not perfect as we still have sail-common.dll, sail.dll etc. but at least it significantly reduces the number of files. Any other ideas are welcomed!

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The vcpkg way has been added in the FAQ: https://sail.software/faq.html#can-i-compile-codecs-dependencies-like-libjpeg-directly-into-sail

The latest master is required for that as I commited a couple of configuration fixes.

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