Re: Compression libraries such as zlib and zstd ought to be first class boost libraries

From: Nigel Stewart (nigels.com_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-05 00:40:14

> A broader difficulty I'm having with zlib in particular is poor cmake
>> support.
>
> ZLib doesn't need to support cmake, you can do it yourself by listing the
> .c files that the zlib library uses and compiling them together into your
> own specified target.
>

Vinnie,

Technically true.  But in practice various things need to consume zlib via
cmake. and that's a bit broken.
It's not just me that thinks so: https://github.com/madler/zlib/issues/831
I empathise with the maintainer, it's thankless work that I try to avoid in
my spare time too.

- Nigel Stewart