Does Wine benefit from libtiff5 over libtiff4?

[Scott Ritchie]

I'm trying to manage building for 3 different Ubuntu releases now for 
our 1.5 releases, and the main delta between them is libtiff

12.04: libtiff4 available
12.10: libtiff4 and libtiff 5 available
13.04: libtiff4 and libtiff 5 available

It's much simpler if I can build on 12.04 and copy the binary packages, 
however this means I can't use libtiff5 if I do so.  Is there any 
benefit in doing a separate build just for this?

*note that in 12.10/13.04 official archive we build seperately and just 
use libtiff5.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Scott Ritchie <scott(a)open-vote.org> wrote:
> It's much simpler if I can build on 12.04 and copy the binary packages, 
> however this means I can't use libtiff5 if I do so.  Is there any 
> benefit in doing a separate build just for this?

At this point there is no benefit, but once bigtiff support is added to
windowscodecs.dll there will be some.

-- 
Dmitry.

[Vincent Povirk]

> > It's much simpler if I can build on 12.04 and copy the binary packages,
> > however this means I can't use libtiff5 if I do so.  Is there any
> > benefit in doing a separate build just for this?
>
> At this point there is no benefit, but once bigtiff support is added to
> windowscodecs.dll there will be some.

Does WIC on Windows support bigtiff?

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Vincent Povirk <madewokherd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Does WIC on Windows support bigtiff?

According to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee720061(v=vs.85).as...
it does starting from Windows 7.

-- 
Dmitry.