[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.2 ready for release

[Cosmin Truta]

Hello, everyone,

Here is the DLL bundle:

  http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cosmin/compr/zlib/zlib122-dll.zip

  len(zlib122-dll.zip)  = 76996 bytes
  MD5(zlib122-dll.zip)  = 85c88c86212655157b01b7673435fa30
  SHA1(zlib122-dll.zip) = 29c7c871322865d2467afe17d6a9a24ba892a809

Noone complained about the message re: "Problem with ZLIB1.DLL and
Visual C++ .Net", so I went ahead with the updated DLL_FAQ. Although,
we could still wait until this weekend, before putting it on the web.
There are slight changes in the other doc files (README.txt and
USAGE.txt) as well.


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Gilles Vollant wrote:

> Cosmin, do you want I build the DLL zlib1.dll with VC++, or you need
> nothing from me, with free Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 ?

Thanks. I managed to use the Toolkit *and* VC++6 just fine. Neither the
static lib, nor the DLL can be built with the Toolkit alone!


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:

> IIUC - it will only create binaries for the newer runtimes,
> not for the VC 6 runtime as documented for zlib1.dll.

I used the VC7.1 compiler and linker, with the VC6 library. The Toolkit
alone can only be used to build apps statically linked to the C runtime.
Dynamic linking is not possible, neither to MSVCRT.DLL, nor to
MSVCR71.DLL. It doesn't matter, anyway, because... see below...


> It's a wonderful tool - and it's a shame MS didn't roll in
> nmake.exe to make it really useful.

To me, it doesn't look so wonderful. What's good about it, is that it
has the latest compiler and linker. It has no nmake, no librarian (no
way you're going to build zlib.lib only with the Toolkit!), no resource
compiler, no iostream.h compatibility -- just <iostream>, ...!

Aside from its compiler, the Toolkit is just a toy. For real use, get
MinGW. I intended to use MinGW myself, but they didn't make releases
since gcc-3.3.1. They only have release candidates (incl. gcc-3.4.2),
and I could not rely on them.


Best regards,
Cosmin