[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.6.1

[jbowler at acm.org]

>I am now including unistd.h if __WATCOM__ is defined.  Please pull the latest version from
>https://github.com/madler/zlib/tree/develop and let me know if it works.

I did just that - I don't have GIT support on my home Windows machine so I just tar'ed the directory from my home Gentoo machine and used that (caveat emptor et cetera.)

The zlib build (after adding OpenWatcom IDE files from a previous release, unmodified) is warning free, apart from the expected:

deflate.c(1404): Warning! W201: Unreachable code

libpng compiles just fine; only the libpng warnings I expect.  One minor problem is that the git head defines ZLIB_VERSION as "1.2.6"; I find that confusing because it clearly isn't ;-)  I suggest setting it to something unique, such as "1.2.6.githead"; that will at least detect the people who do Dewey decimal compares on it.

John Bowler <jbowler at acm.org>