[Zlib-devel] Z_PREFIX list inconsistent with zlib.def

[Cosmin Truta]

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote:

> It seems that the Z_PREFIX list starting at line 16 in zconf.h isn't
> quite consistent with win32/zlib.def.

Z_PREFIX is disabled by default, and zlib.def is designed to work with a
standard build, where the options are defaults.

> All of the gz* functions have been omitted, plus inflateBack,
> inflateBackEnd, inflateBackInit, zError, and zlibCompileFlags.

What zlib.def are you looking at? zlib-1.2.1 should have a
win32/zlib.def dated 8-Nov-2003, and that one has inflateBack on line
22, inflateBackEnd on line 23, inflateBackInit_ on line 57
(inflateBackInit is a macro), zError on line 60, and zlibCompileFlags on
line 24. The gz* functions are there as well.

> The MVS list of shortened names (around line 307 in zconf.h) is
> missing those and a few others as well.

That one is inherited from an old zlib, and noone took care to update
it. Do the current MVS systems still need that ugly hack? Unless someone
comes with a proper update, or at least with a request for update, we
might as well take that section out. Right now, it's very incomplete,
and (I presume) hardly useful.

> I'm looking at zconf.h dated November 4, 2003, from the zlib-1.2.1
> distribution, and win32/zlib.def dated November 8, 2003.

There must be something wrong there. I've just expanded my copies of
zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz, and zlib121.zip, and win32/zlib.def is exactly as
described above. I run MD5 sum checks, which confirmed that my archives
are valid.

ef1cb003448b4a53517b8f25adb12452 *zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz
6619c21d42418d399d549aeec3f9401a *zlib121.zip

Best regards,
Cosmin