From: "Olaf van der Spek" <Olaf AT XCC DOT TMFWeb DOT NL>
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Subject: Re: Using zlib
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 07:46:06 +0200
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"Richard Dawe" <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> schreef in bericht
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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

I think that's not the problem, as it should be automatically included.

> 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.

I compiled the lib myself, but make install gave some errors.
I copied the files zconf.h, zlib.h and libz.a to the djgpp directories.

>
> Hope that helps, bye,
>
> --
> Richard Dawe
> richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/