[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.5 available for testing

[Vincent Torri]

Hey

> Usually, the import library on Windows are name libname.dll.a
>
> Is there a reason to name zlib one 'libzdll.a' (without the . before dll) ?

I send that mail again because i think that it is important. On Windows 
(mingw or cygwin), the import lib that is detected is libxxx.dll.a and not 
libxxxdll.a

See : http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/WIN32.html

in the "direct linking to a dll" section.

I always has to rename that file so that ld finds it

regards

Vincent Torri