Re: Custom zlib for Windows builds

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>]

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).

Regards,
Pascal.

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