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

[Philip Lowman]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Mark Adler <madler at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> 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.
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> 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?

I believe MinGW libraries are generally libfoo.a (static) &
libfoo.dll.a (dll import).  Seeing that this is a patch release should
the filename be kept the same?

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

If having the #cmakedefine in the zconf.h.in file is too disruptive
then the easiest solution would be copying the file and creating a
zconf.h.cmakein.

If you want, I will post to the CMake mailing list and ask for
advice/suggestions.  Off the top of my head I can't think of an easy
way to do the substitution.

-- 
Philip Lowman