• mandel (8/8) Dec 28 2007 HI,
• Neal Alexander (19/32) Dec 28 2007 nah it builds easily.
• mandel (9/25) Dec 29 2007 that looks really easy indeed.

mandel <foo bar.com> writes:

HI,

I like to link zlib into my application binary for windows (+mingw).

Where do I have to start, or can I just download some lib somewhere?

I tried to download libz1.dll, converted it with implib (from
ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip) to libz1.lib.
But when I run the exe the zlib1.dll have to be in the same folder
or I get an error message instead.

Someone suggested building zlib statically with dmc.
But that looks like an long time adventure to figure out in detail. :]

Neal Alexander <wqeqweuqy hotmail.com> writes:

mandel wrote:
 HI,
 
 I like to link zlib into my application binary for windows (+mingw).
 
 Where do I have to start, or can I just download some lib somewhere?
 
 I tried to download libz1.dll, converted it with implib (from
ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip) to libz1.lib.
 But when I run the exe the zlib1.dll have to be in the same folder
 or I get an error message instead.
 
 Someone suggested building zlib statically with dmc.
 But that looks like an long time adventure to figure out in detail. :]
 

nah it builds easily.

heres a lib i built months ago if youre lazy (no clue if it even works 
or its the right one heh): http://destroy.selfip.org/z_mars.lib

heres the script i used to build it (i probably copied dependencies around).

dmc -c adler32.c
dmc -c compress.c
dmc -c crc32.c
dmc -c deflate.c
dmc -c gzio.c
dmc -c infback.c
dmc -c inffast.c
dmc -c infflate.c
dmc -c inflate.c
dmc -c inftrees.c
dmc -c trees.c
dmc -c uncompr.c
dmc -c zutil.c
lib -c z_mars.lib *.obj

mandel <oh no.es> writes:

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:48:12 -0800, Neal Alexander wrote:

 http://destroy.selfip.org/z_mars.lib

thanks!

 
 dmc -c adler32.c
 dmc -c compress.c
 dmc -c crc32.c
 dmc -c deflate.c
 dmc -c gzio.c
 dmc -c infback.c
 dmc -c inffast.c
 dmc -c infflate.c
 dmc -c inflate.c
 dmc -c inftrees.c
 dmc -c trees.c
 dmc -c uncompr.c
 dmc -c zutil.c
 lib -c z_mars.lib *.obj

that looks really easy indeed.
I tried it this way but get this error message:

C:\msys\1.0\home\Default\zlib-1.2.3>C:\msys\1.0\opt\dmc\dm\bin\dmc.exe -c 
adler32.c
Error C:\msys\1.0\opt\dmc\dm\bin\..\include\unistd.h 6:  "unistd.h is not 
for Windows use"
--- errorlevel 1