Third-party libraries for the Salamander core and plugins #25
Description
Transferred from OpenSalamander#8 (by @janrysavy)
I am considering how to handle third-party libraries in Salamander. Currently, this issue arises with OpenSalamander#5 which includes lzma and zstd library port. At the same time, we need to address OpenSSL for the FTP plugin and UnRAR.dll for the UnRAR plugin.
One solution seems to be through git submodules. Allow plugins to include code from the \src\common\dep directory, where these third-party libraries would have their directories.
The second option would be vcpkg, but that means an additional build requirement, external source code. Git submodules seem more friendly to me in this regard. How do you see it?
Originally reported at: OpenSalamander#8