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

[John Bowler]

From: Enrico Weigelt
>Gentoo applies the same patch.

In other words gentoo patches the implib name from libzdll.a to libz.dll.a on mingw.  This is done so that other packages, which invariably use '-lz', do actually link to the DLL, see the bug report:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288212

John Bowler <jbowler at acm.org>