Vendored FluidSynth?

[localins]

According to SDL3_Mixer's CMakeLists, FluidSynth isn't vendored and will be disabled when SDLMIXER_VENDORED is enabled. In external, most of the vendored backends are there as submodules but fluidsynth is nowhere to be seen. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with FluidSynth's LGPL-2.1 license because other backends like flac, libgme, mpg123 use LGPL-2.1 but are still vendored. If anything I'm just curious to know the reason behind excluding FluidSynth.

[icculus]

I carried this over from SDL2_mixer as-is, so I don't know. Does anyone know if there's a good reason, or is this an oversight?

[slouken]

I think this was just oversight.

[icculus]

I'm going to assign this to @madebr, since he probably knows all the mechanics of this already, but if you're too busy it's okay.

[sezero]

Apart from it being GPL, it probably also because of it humongous dependencies,, e.g. glib at the least. The last v2.5.x series dropped glib dependency optionally in favor of c++-14 (or was it c++-11 -- and yes it's c++.) In short, it was (is) a pain..

[slouken]

It's LGPL, not full GPL, but I took a look and the glib and gthread dependencies may be a non-starter for a vendored library.

[sezero]

glib and gthread dependencies may be a non-starter for a vendored library.

WONTFIX, then?

[madebr]

There is a cpp11 OS abstraction layer. I think I have it building now.
I think there's a small problem with their headers, but nothing breaking.

[madebr]

#880 adds support for vendored FluidSynth to CMake.

The next question is whether we need a xcode project and/or a Android.mk?