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

[Alon Bar-Lev]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Mark Adler <madler at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 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

Understood. [Although I don't remember we discussed this... :)]
What about creating symbolic link libz.dll.a->libzdll?