On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Charles Wilson wrote: > I've made a new package available on sourceware: mingw-zlib contains the > zlib distribution compiled using 'gcc -mno-cygwin' and installed into > /usr/include/mingw/ and /usr/lib/mingw. > > It includes: > > usr/bin/mgwz.dll > usr/include/mingw/zconf.h > usr/include/mingw/zlib.h > usr/lib/mingw/libz.a > usr/lib/mingw/libz.dll.a > > and documentation. (Note that the dll is named 'mgwz.dll' to prevent > conflicts with 'cygz.dll') > > The idea is for this library to be used by binaries that are part of the > cygwin distribution, but which cannot use the cygwin kernel services -- > such as setup.exe or cygcheck.exe, among others. > > I'd bet that most of those applications would probably want to link > directly to libz.a or use 'ld .... -Bstatic -lz -Bdynamic' rather than > link to dynamically, but we'll play that by ear. > > -- > Chuck > > P.S. Yes, I know this didn't go thru the official process, but I got the > impression that cgf wanted to include this functionality (e.g. the > speedup of cygcheck via zlib library calls instead of zcat.exe) in the > imminent release of cygwin-1.5.4, and I figured this would be fairly > non-controversial.
Chuck, This is good for a temp measure, but wouldn't this normally go into the mingw-runtime and gcc-mingw packages? Or is this going to be a separate package forever and ever? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/