[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.9 is out (fwd)

[Mark Adler]

On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Vincent Torri wrote:
> I resend the mail without the attach tarbal (mail was rejected). Here is a link to the tarbal:
> 
> http://www.maths.univ-evry.fr/pages_perso/vtorri/files/zlib-1.2.3.9-dll.tar.gz

Vincent,

Thanks!

A problem that has been seen in previous DLLs is that not all of the external symbols that are supposed to be available are.  What file is used to determine that, so that I can verify that they are all there?

Can others who use DLLs test what Vincent built?

> 1) I have Visual Studio 2008 (VS9) Professional. I opened the solution that is in contrib/vstudio/vc9/ but i couldn't generate the files and programs (they were ignored).

That was provided by Horoshi Kuno and Gilles Vollant.  Presumably it did something useful on their systems.  Hopefully they can respond.

> 2) in the visual projects, gzio.c is still there. Be sure that gzio.c is removed from every projects / Makefile. And after a closer look, I think that the visual projects are not correct with the current zlib version (missing files, files that are not there anymore)

I had removed all of the gzio references, except that I added the vc9 and vc10 from Gilles after I did that and didn't re-check for gzio.  I have now removed the gzio references there.

If there are other changes that need to be made, someone else will have to make them.

> 3) Pedro mentioned that the name of the import library should be reverted (because of change in the way people linked against zlib before the change). I don't know if you agree with him or not.

I like libzdll.a better, but I'm not hard over either way since I don't live in that environment.  Is there a consensus as to what it should be named?

> 5) How can a Visual Studio user compile zlib if he does not have the possibility to launch ./configure (to create zconf.h) ?

I'm not too fond of the #cmakedefines in zconf.h.in.  Is there a way to get CMake to put those in, as opposed to depending on ./configure to take them out?

Mark