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

[Vincent Torri]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Mark Adler wrote:

> On Apr 19, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Vincent Torri wrote:
>> 1) On Windows, with MSYS/MinGW (that is, without specifying CHOST), during configuration, the output of ar, and nm is not displayed.
>
> Why do you want to see that output?

to be consitent with the output when cross compiling.

>> 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.
>
> Unfortunately both configure && make and win32/Makefile.gcc are half 
> finished for different reasons, and it will simply be that way in 1.2.5, 
> since the bug fix is more important than getting it all to work right 
> with MinGW.

except zlib.pc, what is missing in win32/Makefile.gcc ?


> What I could do for this release is put in ./configure a message and 
> exit for the "MINGW*|mingw*)" case to go look at win32/Makefile.gcc 
> instead.

that would be sufficient for me. Let's see what the other guys say

Vincent Torri