[Mingw-users] problems with zlib on mingw32

[Simson G. <si...@ac...>]

Hi, all. 

1. I'm still trying to get my program ported from mingw running as a cross-compiler on MacOS and Linux to mingw running natively on Windows 7 with msys.

My current stumbling block is zlib.

I am now doing the following to get my mingw32 system operational:

  mingw-get update
  mingw-get install g++
  mingw-get install pthreads
  mingw-get install mingw32-make
  mingw-get install zlib
  mingw-get install msys-zlib-dev

I have verified that this installs /usr/include/zlib.h and /usr/lib/libz.a

I am now trying to get libewf compiled and installed. Strangely, it is not finding zlib with this configure script:

	./configure 

Instead, I need to do this:

	./configure CFLAGS="-I/usr/include -L/usr/lib"

This seems odd to me. Shouldn't these be the default search paths?

2. Is there any way to get a list of the various packages that can be downloaded with mingw-get?  In particular, I need to download and install openssl-dev, and can't figure out how to do that.

3. What's the proper way to install openssl?

Thanks!