Re: [NSIS-devel] Building NSIS. Suggestion for another one dll stab name.

[Anders <and...@us...>]

The building NSIS page links to
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/zlib124-dll.zip but for some
reason that file was deleted from SF at some point. The .lib in
zlib125-dll.zip seems to crash when using Visual Studio! What I have
been doing is to grab the .lib from zlib123-dll.zip and the .dll from
zlib125-dll.zip ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/zlib/ )
and that works both for MinGW and VC2003 IIRC.



On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko <gav...@gm...> wrote:
> I built NSIS trunk by:
>
>   set PATH=c:\opt\python27;c:\opt\python27\Scripts;c:\opt\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;c:\opt\MinGW\bin;%PATH%
>   set ZLIB_W32=c:\opt\zlib
>
>   scons SKIPUTILS="NSIS Menu"
>   scons PREFIX="C:\opt\NSIS" install
>
>   $ cd c:\opt\nsis
>   $ makensis.exe Examples\example1.nsi
>   ...
>   $ Examples\example1.exe
>   ...
>
> But one step took a long time. That was zlib library. I got zlib from well
> known Gnuwin32 project unpuck them and build failed at configuration step. As
> I was new to SCons I spend a lot of time on finding a way to debug issue.
>
> My problem come from 2 thing:
>
>  * where do zlib live?
>  * how to install zlib (file names, directory layout)?
>
> After all I found reference about zlib at:
>
>   http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/AppendixG.html
>
> but these pages initially frustrate me:
>
>   http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Development_Files
>   http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Building_NSIS_from_SVN
>   http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Special_Builds
>
> In order to build I prepare fix:
>
> Index: SConstruct
> ===================================================================
> --- SConstruct  (revision 6273)
> +++ SConstruct  (working copy)
> @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@
>         )
>     ))
>     # Search for import library of zlib for VisualC or mingw
> -   for importlib in ['zdll.lib', 'libzdll.a']:
> +   for importlib in ['zdll.lib', 'libzdll.a', 'libz.dll.a']:
>         defenv['ZLIB_W32_LIB'] = os.path.dirname(str(
>             defenv.FindFile(importlib,
>                 [
>
> Note that "libz.dll.a" name also used in Cygwin...
>
> Also I have attempt to cross-compile NSIS in Debian and in Cygwin. But seems
> Sconstruct must be fixed to do so.
>
> --
> Best regards!
>
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