Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Custom zlib for Windows builds
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From: Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:08:56 +0200
Fixing zlib address.

2015-04-28 16:05 GMT+02:00 Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Graham,
>
> I would not create a fork before asking zlib maintainters, thus
> copying them now.
>
> Dear Zlib Mainainters (Mark?),
>
> Do you plan accepting some of the pull requests listed on zlib's GitHub queue?
> We need some of the changes in Wireshark and it would be really nice
> if we would not have to diverge too much from zlib's master branch.
>
> Cheers,
> Balint
>
>
> 2015-04-27 17:33 GMT+02:00 Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Graham Bloice