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On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 22:34 BST Vincent Povirk wrote:
>> considering how old zlib is and the vast number of windows application which
>> uses zlib
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>Given how many people duplicate the effort to package zlib, the fact
>that they're rarely updated, and the sort of problems gnulib exists to
>work around, it would not surprise me if your particular zlib binary
>is broken somehow.
got nobody else to blame - because of exactly the issue you outlined
encountered in the past, i am building the application with a private copy of
the source of zlib 1.2.7.