Some of you have been following my hxRender project to one degree or another. For those of you who have, and for those that haven't, I need some help. I am to the point now where I need to make some important choices. The most important, being distribution. The previous versions, and this slated current version are static library distributions. There isn't anything wrong with this except that updating the library will require the developer to recompile the executable. If I make a critical speed update, it shouldn't require a recompile to fix. Then there is another issue, right now, I have it so that it can be compiled for any platform, using OpenGL as the primary renderer. I was wondering if I should be looking into making this more portable. I eventualy want to port this to the dreamcast, and other dedicated systems. Obviously, the dreamcast can't load dynamic modules, so it would have to be a static library. I guess I am looking for input on where to take all this. -are simple static libraries fine? -should I look at other rendering systems, such as D3D, the windows GDI? I guess this thing is becomming larger than I thought, so how do I tame it?

So it looks like nobody gives a shit...

So, stick to OpenGL, then whatever API's are available for the dedicated devices?
That makes sense I guess.

dcosborn, your advice is sound, but I need the class interface in order to handle memory managment for the surfaces, as they are chained in a linked list. I expect someone in the future will port this to .NET.