Re: [boost] Re: Anyone planning a compression library?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-02-14 13:13:04

> 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).

Don't they?

If that's a problem, I can supply prebuilt .libs for win32. The only other
thing necessary would be to supply zlib.h and zconf.h.

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Peter Dimov
Multi Media Ltd.