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

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-05 03:46:50

On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 7:40 PM Nigel Stewart via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > 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.

Use a package manager that has the cmake worked out.

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