[Zlib-devel] libzdll.a -> libz.dll.a rename (was: Re: zlib 1.2.3.5 available for testing)

[Vincent Torri]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Pedro Alves wrote:

> [sorry for the late reply, been traveling]
>
> On Sunday 17 January 2010 11:57:26, Vincent Torri wrote:
>
>>> 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
>
> This change will break people's current build machineries.

i *have to* rename libzdll.a to libz.dll.a so that ld finds the file.

Vincent Torri