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

[Kalev Lember]

On 04/26/2010 08:50 PM, John Bowler wrote:
> 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:

Fedora's mingw32-zlib package [1] also renames it to libz.dll.a for the
very same reasons.

[1] 
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/mingw32-zlib/devel/mingw32-zlib.spec?view=markup

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Kalev