Re: [Bug-gnubg] Win32 builds - new set of DLL

[Nardy Pillards]

From: "Holger" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 6:40 PM


> At 17:49 30.06.2003 +0200, I wrote:
> >gnubg (or maybe rather libpng) wants zlib.dll. It does not recognize
> >zlib-1.dll. Renaming zlib-1.dll to zlib.dll works however as expected.
> >How do we want to deal with this?
>
> zlib.dll was included in zlib-1.1.4-bin.zip from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617 , but is not
> available for download anymore.
> As of zlib-1.1.4-1-bin.zip they have changed the name to zlib-1.dll.
>
> Regards,
>
>          Holger
>
Reason for the zlib-1.dll:

This version fixes a potential security problem, see details here. Any
software that is linked against or derived from an earlier version of zlib
should be upgraded immediately. A partial list of over 500 applications
using zlib is given here (uncompressed).
( http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ )

Nardy