On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Arjen Markus <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have built fossil on Windows (XP) using MinGW and the gcc compiler.
> That works fine, except that the resulting executable depends on
> the libz-1.dll that is located in the MinGW bin directory.
>
> This means such an executable will not work if that DLL is not in
> the path (or one of the other locations for DLLs).
>
> Would it not be better to link against the static/archive version
> of libz?
>
> Regards,
>
> Arjen
>
The current makefile only links statically if FOSSIL_ENABLE_SSL is defined.
It is a fairly easy change to the Makefile to include -static for all cases.
Looking at the stand-alone design philosophy, it could be argued that this
should be the default.

Mark
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