[fossil-users] Building fossil on Windows with MinGW - dependency on libz

2011-03-18 Thread Arjen Markus
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

Re: [fossil-users] Building fossil on Windows with MinGW - dependency on libz

2011-03-18 Thread Mark Janssen
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

Re: [fossil-users] Building fossil on Windows with MinGW - dependency on libz

2011-03-18 Thread Richard Hipp
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

Re: [fossil-users] Building fossil on Windows with MinGW - dependency on libz

2011-03-18 Thread Arjen Markus
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

Re: [fossil-users] Building fossil on Windows with MinGW - dependency on libz

2011-03-18 Thread Antoine Chavasse
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