[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.5 coming soon to website near you

[Vincent Torri]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Mark Adler wrote:

> All,
>
> Nelson reported successful builds of 1.2.4.5 on all 36 of his systems.  I plan to release zlib 1.2.5 tonight.  This is your last chance for testing and recommended changes before it goes out.  Thank you all for your help.

1) On Windows, with MSYS/MinGW (that is, without specifying CHOST), during 
configuration, the output of ar, and nm is not displayed. Are you sure 
that the test, line 32 for example, is necessary ?

2) On windows, cross compiling or not, using ./configure && make, the name 
of the shared lib is still not zlib1.dll, but a .so file. And again, -fPIC 
is used. So there is 2 solutions: either you fix correctly the windows 
support of configure, or you drop it. But don't let it half finished.

Vincent Torri