Rewrite it as reStructuredText so that it can be hosted alongside the
API documentation on Read The Docs, which allows linking to WIP syntax
documentation.
Instead, point to the CI configuration files, and include the extra
steps for Ubuntu 12.04 as a script. More useful, and less likely to
become outdated.
The readme now informs users that the MSVC 2015 x86 redistributable
is required, and the installer will download and install it if it
is not detected as being already installed.
Update libloadorder to 9.4.1 to support statically linking Boost
libraries while dynamically-linking the runtime library, and update
how CEF's default configuration is edited to also support dynamic
linking.
Dynamic linking is required for the API DLL, and static linking is
required by the C API wrapper. As building both would double build
times, CI will only build with dynamic linking, which means LOOT
application users will now also need the MSVC 2015 x86 runtime.
This CEF is based on Chromium 51, which drops support for Windows
Vista.
CEF now has builds hosted by Spotify that can be downloaded
automatically, so the build process has been updated to automate
downloading and building the CEF dependency. The version of CMake
in Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't support the URL_HASH parameter, so use a
more recent version from a PPA.
Unfortunately the minimal build's CMake config is broken
(https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/1921) so for now
LOOT downloads the standard build (which is a much larger download).
The CEF dependency is not resolved using CMake because it's only
available behind a CAPTCHA, and the Boost dependency is not resolved
using CMake because it is a relatively large dependency that is better
shared between LOOT and its dependencies that use it, instead of each
having to build a separate copy.
This is slower than the existing Travis script, because all targets in
the dependencies are now built, but it is more portable.
Oliver Hamlet
Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen