[Zlib-devel] new assembly code for modified structure inzLib1.2.2.1

[William A. Rowe, Jr.]

At 12:44 AM 1/4/2005, Andrei Polushin wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Mark Adler" <madler at alumni.caltech.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:19 AM
>>
>> Or how about I just delete the object files?  Is there a reason that
>> there needs to be object files in the zlib source distribution?
>
>Probably, the only reason was that the original distribution of MS Visual
>Studio 6.0 did not contain MASM - assembler program, ml.exe, so user needs
>to download MASM as part of Visual C++ Processor Pack from
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/ppack/download.aspx

What they don't say on that page (and rudely surprised me) is that
you cannot use the VisStudio 6.0 SP6 (latest update) and any processor
pack - there is simply no assembler available for that combination.
This would be the one obvious exception.  By the way, many build
systems for commercial libraries include the .obj results from the
.asm sources for the Win32 platform - the zlib package is by no
means unique.

>This is not an issue for Visual Studio 7.0 and later - it contains MASM by
>default.

Thankfully.