On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, SM wrote:

> >zlib is not a requirement, but it is a recommended add-on.
> >
> >Didn't you need to edit any makefiles/project files? I've added several
> >source files to the curl build recently and the windows makefiles/project
> >files aren't updated to reflect that...
>
> No, I have not edited the makefiles yet. I wanted to clear up the zlib
> question first. If zlib is not a requirement, shouldn't it have a
> conditional switch so that it can be turned on only if the user has the
> recommended add-on?

Yes, that would probably be a good idea.

The Windows makefiles tend to only get the most serious errors fixed, they
hardly ever get fancy things like this added...

> The alternative is to modify the docs (for win32) and specify that zlib is a
> requirement and that the path to the lib should be specified by editing the
> makefile. This would be similar to the ssl enabled build.

I don't think zlib is _that_ important for curl.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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