[MacPorts] #32302: OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) Static Port

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#32302: OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) Static Port
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 Reporter:  marin.saric@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  submission             |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports                  |     Version:  2.0.3                                
 Keywords:  maintainer             |        Port:                                       
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 This is a ground-up rework of OGRE port designed to deploy static binaries
 on MacOS X in a similar fashion to the Linux port. This port is not a
 variant of the existing Ogre port; it includes major changes to the build
 system and a re-work to make it function much more like its Linux
 counterpart.

 This is currently the only version of OGRE for MacOS X that allows the
 user to run the tutorial code on the OGRE website and the only version of
 OGRE for MacOS X which runs the Sample code under a static build.

 It is also by far the easiest version to install and get started in.
 There are many fixes to the CMakefiles and Find*.cmake macros to enable
 small CMakeLists.txt projects that work using a simple cmake/make
 invocation.

 There is a README file and the tutorial code from the OGRE website has
 been adapted to run on MacOS X. This required including a separate Cocoa-
 based module, since the OGRE MacOS X port is missing the required Cocoa-
 driving code.

 It is currently impossible to install both ogre and ogre-static, since
 OGRE header files and the library behavior by design changes if a static
 build is active.

 Static binary support was introduced to OGRE relatively recently. Unlike
 the MacOS X version on the OGRE website and the OGRE version currently in
 MacPorts, ogre-static (this version) builds using only CMake, without any
 explicit reliance on XCode. It is designed to produce simple executables
 that do not depend on any libraries other than the most basic MacOS X
 system frameworks (this can be verified with otool -L). In a source-based
 distribution like MacPorts, a dynamically linked variant of Ogre offers
 very few advantages and many possible pitfalls once a MacPorts-based
 application needs to be deployed.

 This OGRE port has been successfully used in a scientific application that
 also uses OpenCV and runs inside MATLAB that has been deployed on Linux
 without any code changes.

 The aim of this port is to become officially supported by the OGRE
 project. Once it is available in MacPorts, the maintainer will contact the
 OGRE developer community for feedback and enhancement requests.

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