----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 3:23 PM Subject: Re: Move zlib up one level?
> > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > Would there be any objections to my moving cinstall's zlib directory to > > the same level as bz2lib, i.e., making it winsup/zlib? > > > > I'd like to use some of its functionality in cygcheck.exe. > > > Yeah, but isn't cygcheck a cygwin1.dll application? That would mean you'd > need to (at least) compile libz.a twice anyway -- once as a cygwin "app" > and once as a native "app", right? I don't see that being a *bad* thing. Having a single source dir is a good thing regardless. > Or can we build that static lib the same way both times (e.g. only build it > once) since *static* libs CAN have unresolved externals (like "printf") and > then trust the linker to "do the right thing" w.r.t. cygcheck and setup? Only if _all_ the defines used are identical . Rob
