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

[William A. Rowe Jr.]

On 2/23/2010 10:03 AM, Mark Adler wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2010, at 10:42 PM, Vincent Torri wrote:
>> Is it what you want ?
> 
> I would like to check the DLL, not the static lib.  Apparently there is an additional specification somewhere required to export symbols in the DLL, that resulted in some functions not being exported in the zlib 1.2.3 DLL.

Either an entry in a .def file, or __declspec(dllexport)

>> So maybe it is more safe to revert the change of the name.
> 
> No change is better if that's acceptable.  I have changed libz.dll.a back to libzdll.a in win32/Makefile.gcc .

Best if things remain with the same names until 1.3.0 - users just don't
expect to be jerked back and forth on naming conventions and stuff until
they see at least a minor rev bump :)