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

[Alon Bar-Lev]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Vincent Torri <vtorri at univ-evry.fr> wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Mark Adler <madler at alumni.caltech.edu>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> Alon,
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>>> I could have sworn we talked about this one too.
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>>> 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
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>> Understood. [Although I don't remember we discussed this... :)]
>> What about creating symbolic link libz.dll.a->libzdll?
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> Just fyi, symbolic link do not exist on Windows < Vista

:)
But it is great for cross compile...
And msys has symlink emulation... It is a simple copy.