Re: Anyone planning a compression library?

From: jeff_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-02-14 13:05:34

Peter Dimov wrote:
> Better yet, don't incorporate zlib, simply link to it. zlib is 

This is what I am doing now.  While, that may be a valid 
configuration for a Linux version it would not work for Windows.  
Thus the user would need to download and compile zlib on Windows to 
use a boost library.  Unless I am missing something, boost library 
standards don't allow this kind of external library dependency 
(standard library excepted).

Jeff