Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: magetower.office.aol.com: prentis owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:26:08 -0500 (EST) From: Prentis Brooks To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zlib-1.1.4-1 (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Quick Question for Package maintainers, are the packages built under cygwin that utilize zlib linking dynamically or are there any that are built statically? If static, can you guys do us a favor and let us know which ones you have that are static? Thanks -- Prentis Brooks | prentis AT aol DOT net | 703-265-0914 | AIM: PrentisBrooks Senior System Administrator - Web Infrastructure & Security A knight is sworn to valor. His heart knows only virtue. His blade defends the helpless. His word speaks only truth. His wrath undoes the wicked. - the old code of Bowen, last of the dragonslayers ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:02:24 -0500 From: Charles Wilson Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zlib-1.1.4-1 The zlib package has been updated to version 1.1.4-1. zlib is a standard lossless compression library. The 1.1.4 version of zlib fixes a 'double free' bug that could lead to heap corruption when untrusted, compressed data is fed to zlib. CHANGES: - update to official 1.1.4 release -- Charles Wilson zlib volunteer maintainer for cygwin INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and update the zlib package. Note that we have recently stopped downloads from sources.redhat.com ( aka cygwin.com) due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update. In the US, ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ is a reliable high bandwidth connection. In the UK, http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/ is usually up-to-date within 48 hours. If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package then you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another mirror. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com . I would appreciate if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general. If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com NOTES: o Now uses the auto-import functionality of newer binutils, and doesn't use __declspec(dllimport). This means you no longer need -DZLIB_STATIC when compiling objects intended for static linking. Just compile as normal. HOWEVER, you need to use a special flag when linking statically: 'gcc -static'. For dynamic linking, you need no special link-time flags (assuming you're using binutils newer than 20010930, when --enable-auto-import was made the default). -- PRO: no compile time flags needed when building client programs; ONLY need a link-time flag linking to static libraries. NO special flags at compile-time nor link-time when linking to dynamic links. -- CON: (partial): if using binutils older than 20010930, you now need a special linktime flag for dynamic linking (-Wl,--enable-auto-import). However, with an up-to-date binutils, you don't need this. o The following packages have been converted from old style "-DFOO_STATIC" to the new autoimport style of DLL structure: ncurses readline gettext zlib libpng xpm-nox jpeg tiff gdbm jbig The following package has not (yet) been converted, and still needs -DFOO_STATIC for static builds: bzip2 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/