[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] mingw zlib import library name

[Mark Adler]

On Apr 20, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Currently zlib produce zlibdll.a as import library, while the libtool
> standard is libz.dll.a.
> It would be help if the convention is kept so components that depend
> on zlib will successfully built using shared object.

Alon,

I could have sworn we talked about this one too.

We have to pick libzdll.a or libz.dll.a.  Some depend on the first, you depend on the second.  The consensus was libzdll.a, since many use -lzdll.

I suppose it's inevitable that if there are two conflicting conventions out there, we're going to disappoint somebody.

Mark