[sldev] cannot open file 'OpenJPEG.lib'

[Kelly Linden]

Ryan Williams (Which) wrote:
> Anna Gulaev wrote:
>> On 11/18/07, *Anna Gulaev* <annagulaev at gmail.com
>> <mailto:annagulaev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I am not having these troubles building the release version.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps I was building the wrong version. Apparently,
>> ReleaseForDownload has some debug info and ReleaseNoOpt has more, and
>> both of these build okay. Debug is something else and has its own
>> build requirements.
>>
> You know, I've never successfully built in Debug.  I assumed that
> someone else used that mode for great justice, or something, but
> ReleaseNoOpt has always been good enough for me.
>
> Has anyone gotten any use out of Debug, or is it just a vestige/trap
> for the unwary?  Could we nuke it?
>
> -RYaN
>
Debug is most useful when you need debug versions of 3rd party libs. 
You don't really want to mix debug libs with release libs for the reason
of all the link errors already mentioned.  While maybe rarely used it is
probably worth maintaining for this reason.

 - Kelly