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I'm taking a page from Dolphin's book, and including copies of each dependency's source code. This combines the ease of use of including pre-built libraries instead of needing to navigate a package manager - as is (or was) the case for MSVC - with the portability of using packages. Granted, this method's more of a jack of all trades, master of none, since it's *less* user-friendly than prebuilt packages (compilation times), and you don't get the per-distro compatibility fixes you'd get from a package manager. You can still use system libs if you want. In fact, it's still the default behaviour: compiling the libs manually is just a fallback. I'll add an option to force-enable this soon, however, since it's a nicer way to produce static MSYS2 builds than the hackish nightmare that I was using before. Not to mention, having my own copy of the sources means I can provide my own fixes and tweaks your package manager may not. For example, I can combine MSYS2's FreeType subpixel rendering with vcpkg's fix for SDL2 exporting its symbols in static builds.
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ZLIB DATA COMPRESSION LIBRARY
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zlib 1.2.8 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code is
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thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs
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(Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950 (zlib format), rfc1951 (deflate format) and
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rfc1952 (gzip format).
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All functions of the compression library are documented in the file zlib.h
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(volunteer to write man pages welcome, contact zlib@gzip.org). A usage example
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of the library is given in the file test/example.c which also tests that
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the library is working correctly. Another example is given in the file
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test/minigzip.c. The compression library itself is composed of all source
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files in the root directory.
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To compile all files and run the test program, follow the instructions given at
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the top of Makefile.in. In short "./configure; make test", and if that goes
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well, "make install" should work for most flavors of Unix. For Windows, use
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one of the special makefiles in win32/ or contrib/vstudio/ . For VMS, use
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make_vms.com.
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Questions about zlib should be sent to <zlib@gzip.org>, or to Gilles Vollant
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<info@winimage.com> for the Windows DLL version. The zlib home page is
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http://zlib.net/ . Before reporting a problem, please check this site to
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verify that you have the latest version of zlib; otherwise get the latest
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version and check whether the problem still exists or not.
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PLEASE read the zlib FAQ http://zlib.net/zlib_faq.html before asking for help.
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Mark Nelson <markn@ieee.org> wrote an article about zlib for the Jan. 1997
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issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available at
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http://marknelson.us/1997/01/01/zlib-engine/ .
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The changes made in version 1.2.8 are documented in the file ChangeLog.
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Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory contrib/ .
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zlib is available in Java using the java.util.zip package, documented at
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http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/compression/ .
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A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org> is available
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at CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites, including
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http://search.cpan.org/~pmqs/IO-Compress-Zlib/ .
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A Python interface to zlib written by A.M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> is
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available in Python 1.5 and later versions, see
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http://docs.python.org/library/zlib.html .
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zlib is built into tcl: http://wiki.tcl.tk/4610 .
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An experimental package to read and write files in .zip format, written on top
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of zlib by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>, is available in the
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contrib/minizip directory of zlib.
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Notes for some targets:
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- For Windows DLL versions, please see win32/DLL_FAQ.txt
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- For 64-bit Irix, deflate.c must be compiled without any optimization. With
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-O, one libpng test fails. The test works in 32 bit mode (with the -n32
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compiler flag). The compiler bug has been reported to SGI.
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- zlib doesn't work with gcc 2.6.3 on a DEC 3000/300LX under OSF/1 2.1 it works
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when compiled with cc.
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- On Digital Unix 4.0D (formely OSF/1) on AlphaServer, the cc option -std1 is
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necessary to get gzprintf working correctly. This is done by configure.
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- zlib doesn't work on HP-UX 9.05 with some versions of /bin/cc. It works with
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other compilers. Use "make test" to check your compiler.
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- gzdopen is not supported on RISCOS or BEOS.
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- For PalmOs, see http://palmzlib.sourceforge.net/
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Acknowledgments:
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The deflate format used by zlib was defined by Phil Katz. The deflate and
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zlib specifications were written by L. Peter Deutsch. Thanks to all the
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people who reported problems and suggested various improvements in zlib; they
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are too numerous to cite here.
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Copyright notice:
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(C) 1995-2013 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
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This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
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warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
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arising from the use of this software.
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Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
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including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
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freely, subject to the following restrictions:
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1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
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claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
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in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
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appreciated but is not required.
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2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
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misrepresented as being the original software.
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3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
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Jean-loup Gailly Mark Adler
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jloup@gzip.org madler@alumni.caltech.edu
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If you use the zlib library in a product, we would appreciate *not* receiving
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lengthy legal documents to sign. The sources are provided for free but without
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warranty of any kind. The library has been entirely written by Jean-loup
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Gailly and Mark Adler; it does not include third-party code.
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If you redistribute modified sources, we would appreciate that you include in
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the file ChangeLog history information documenting your changes. Please read
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the FAQ for more information on the distribution of modified source versions.
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