[sldev] Wanted: Standard cross-platform library for CPU detection

[Jason Giglio]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> One issue is that it is currently gcc-centric, this would mean for best
> results on Windows, it would have to be compiled to a DLL using MinGW
> rather than MSVC.

I believe liboil is worth making some concessions for.  I came to the 
same conclusions when I was looking at OpenJPEG, that liboil might be 
very useful to have.

It may even be worth doing upstream patches to liboil to make it more MS 
friendly, if they would be willing to accept them.

-Jason