> > Probing for existing libz (shared or not) would help those of us > > the embed perl in other things which already link zlib. > > But IIUC zlib is embedded in a shared extension, not in perl itself.
files inside ./ext/Compress/Zlib/zlib-src-1.2.2 are zlib itself. So if you're linking all things together with another application already having zlib, you'll duplicate code. And the question, as I understand it, is to make functions from that zlib (inside perl) to be exportable to other apps. >From my own experience, it is quite okay to link zlib so not only Perl, but other applications have it available. Vadim.
