From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Using zlib
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:20:57 +0100
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Hello.

Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> I got a problem using zlib. I compiled it to a .a file fine.
> When I try to compile a file that includes zlib.h, I get this error:
> Syntax error before '(' in for exampe this line:
> ZEXTERN const char * ZEXPORT zlibVersion OF((void));

I had a quick grep through the zlib headers:

zconf.h
zlib.h

OF is defined in zconf.h. Perhaps you haven't got zconf.h in the right
place. zlib.h includes it like so:

#include "zconf.h"

Have you installed zlib ("make install" or whatever)? I have tried
building it from sources myself, but the binary distribution works fine
for me.

Hope that helps, bye,

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Richard Dawe
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