Re: win32 builtin zlib

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:59:37 +0100 Friedhelm Betz <holliwell@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I rewrote the part in the phpdoc manual about building on windows. > zlib is builtin with 4.3.0 but the shipped Workspace for VC++ > relies on a precompilded external zlib.lib. This is just what I run into a few hours ago trying to build php5 checkout with VC6. > Therefore building on win32, out of the box, is not possible without > downloading zlib sources, compiling them and either modify the > workspace or figure out where to place zlib.lib. I had to download zlib.lib from w3c.org before building (here: http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/libwww/Library/External/zlib.lib?sortby=file) > Two points: > > 1.) In the released 4.3.0 source dist, the workspace points to ../../zlib, > 2.) for example snapshot php4-STABLE-200301241430 points to > ../../zlib/Release > > This is hard to document.... > > 1.) Are there future plans to include the zlib sources? probably the quickiest way, unless there are some problems with it, not really sure. > 2.) Should users be advised to modify config.win32.h.in This would mean that every distribution would have to be modified beforeit is built for win32, not the best way IMO. > 3.) Should users be advised to download zlib sources, building > zlib.lib? The link above from w3c could be a good idea to point the user to. -- Maxim Maletsky maxim@php.net