Re: [Mingw-users] library name variants (zlib)

[JonY <jo...@us...>]

On 11/21/2009 21:09, Mark Brand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The official zlib package has win32/Makefile.gcc which creates
> "libzdll.a". But, zlib-1.2.3-1-mingw32-src.tar.gz from the MinGW
> downloads creates "libz.dll.a". (Notice the period between "libz" and "dll".
>
> Why the difference in library name? Which one should be considered
> "standard" for a MinGW installation?
>


Hi,

It depends what you want, really. Most autotools based package and other 
UNIX influenced packages will look for libz.dll.a (via -lz), but will 
not look for libzdll.a.

If you have a source distribution that looks for libzdll, consider 
having a copy of libz.dll.a as libzdll.a, it shouldn't cause any problems.