Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] trouble with libz.a and other libraries

[Tony Theodore]

On 29 May 2010 02:25, Tony Theodore <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29 May 2010 00:29, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Tony Theodore <address@hidden> schrieb:
>>> LZMA isn't part of mingw-cross-env, so leave it out:
>>>
>>> --without-lzmadec
>>> --without-lzma
>>
>> Small correction: LZMA _is_ part of Mingw-cross-env. It is
>> to be found in the XZ package:
>>
>>    make xz
>>
>> The XZ Utils are the successor of the LZMA utils. Both are
>> in turn based on 7zip's LZMA SDK. See
>>
>>    http://tukaani.org/xz/
>
> Curious circularity, from libarchive ./configure --help:
>
> --without-lzma          Don't build support for xz through lzma
>
> Reading the above xz link, I get into the container/compression
> considerations that confound me with ogg/mpeg-4.
>
> Are you saying there's a way to substitute linking lzma with xz?

Ah, I see now. The XZ package provides liblzma and it should be picked
up by configure. The other libs (zlib and bz2) only accidentally work
- configure tests the native versions and it just so happens that the
cross-gcc can find the right ones at build time. I imagine if I had xz
installed it would work the same.

This is a small enough configure.ac so I might see if I can make it
more cross-compile friendly.

Thanks,

Tony