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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: mingw-zlib-1.1.4-4
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:01:14 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: mingw-zlib-1.1.4-4
- References: <20030907084832.E3F556C749@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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