[Scummvm-devel] Re: [Scummvm-cvs-logs] CVS: scummvm/dists/msvc8 scummvm.vcproj, 1.14,1.15

[Pawel Kolodziejski]

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>>there are two currently ports of zlib for Windows:
>>http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/
>>http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm
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>>Last one is for gnu compilers and have dependeces on msvcrt.dll, ligw32c
>>lib.
>>That is for gnu crosscompilators like mingw32. it's not good for native
>>msvc.
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>>First packages are build by native compilators.
>>They provide two version of them: one current 1.2.1 and quite old 1.1.4 .
>>I'm focusing on improved newer version: zlib122dll.zip compiled by msvc
>>2003.
>>It's support full static lib(zlibstat.lib), static wrapper(zlibwapi.lib)
>>for dll. To use dll version you need declare ZLIB_WINAPI for proper
>>linking.
>>Static lib is compatible only for msvc pre 2005, so dll version is can be
>>used only. It's possible to use other but only 1.1.4 or older version
>>which I don't want it.
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> This ports is some kind of second-party to orginal source
ok, that seems not official really.
I don't remember why(maybe they have not updated binary build, and used
that second party binary builds) was not updated I used that versions
below on page before. That current oficial binary build doesn't have
static build, only dll wrapper.
As you wrote below I can build from source(but hate do that, I don't like
build every lib for use).
But still I can use only wrapper. Static linking is still wrong (second
thing, I hate waste time to find out reason).
> http://www.zlib.net/  (their URLs placed in External Links section).
> Current original source package is http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz
> (&some mirrors urls).
> It contains make files for different platforms. win32/makefile.msc
> describes
> follows:
> STATICLIB = zlib.lib
> SHAREDLIB = zlib1.dll
> IMPLIB    = zdll.lib
> so if You with  You can build static lib even for vs2005beta - but You
> must
> not define ZLIB_WINAPI (win32/dll_faq.txt clarifies it)