Re: Custom zlib for Windows builds

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 27 April 2015 at 16:45, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com> wrote:

> 2015-04-27 17:33 GMT+02:00 Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>:
>
> > The remaining CMake warnings for Windows are caused by zlib, as newer
> > CMake versions complain about policy settings.
> >
> > As the zlib maintainers seem very reluctant to incorporate changes (31
> > pull requests at the moment oldest from 2 years ago) to fix this we would
> > have to roll our own zlib for download.
> >
> > The changes required are minimal, but we do do this we could also
> > usefully incorporate another change on their pull requests to disable the
> > building of the example binaries.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Hi Graham,
>
> as we are already hosting the zblib 1.2.8 source code to compile it, I
> guess nothing prevents us to start customizing it a bit and putting the
> details in a README.wireshark (like we do for other 3rd party components).
I'll have a go at producing a new one, what name do we give it
zlib-1.2.8-ws?

-- 
Graham Bloice

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