[fossil-users] Building fossil on Windows with MinGW - dependency on libz
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 DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Building fossil on Windows with MinGW - dependency on libz
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Arjen Markus arjen.mar...@deltares.nlwrote: 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 ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Building fossil on Windows with MinGW - dependency on libz
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Arjen Markus arjen.mar...@deltares.nlwrote: 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? I link the precompiled binaries on the website against libz.a so that there is no dependency. I don't have a libz.dll anywhere on my system. Regards, Arjen DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Building fossil on Windows with MinGW - dependency on libz
Hi Richard, On 2011-03-18 12:49, Richard Hipp wrote: I link the precompiled binaries on the website against libz.a so that there is no dependency. I don't have a libz.dll anywhere on my system. Hm, I installed libz and zlib (not quite sure what the relationship is and I always mix them up), and that gave me both an archive version and and a DLL version of libz (called libz-1.dll). As Mark suggests, forcing a link against static libraries seems the way to go. Regards, Arjen DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Building fossil on Windows with MinGW - dependency on libz
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Arjen Markus arjen.mar...@deltares.nl wrote: As Mark suggests, forcing a link against static libraries seems the way to go. That's how I build fossil in windows. I had the same problem and just modified the mingw makefile to add -static in the LIB variable. I think it would make sense to have it as default, unless there is really a good reason to want to use zlib as a dll. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
