Hi alfarmer,
If you wanted to take a look at producing a static library, I believe others have done this successfully in the past. I agree it would be easier to build if we had less dependencies, but I'm not seeing Boost or OpenSSL be removed from the library anytime soon. It sounds like your main concern is that our dependencies have to be acquired in a different mechanism on each platform (NuGet on Windows, apt-get on Linux, Homebrew on OS X, etc...). We already provide binaries for Windows and Android, does that make it any easier?
Steve
If you wanted to take a look at producing a static library, I believe others have done this successfully in the past. I agree it would be easier to build if we had less dependencies, but I'm not seeing Boost or OpenSSL be removed from the library anytime soon. It sounds like your main concern is that our dependencies have to be acquired in a different mechanism on each platform (NuGet on Windows, apt-get on Linux, Homebrew on OS X, etc...). We already provide binaries for Windows and Android, does that make it any easier?
Steve