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Well, I dunno. libpng needs -lpng16 and -lz. Are you saying that libpng should have a staticly–linked copy of zlib inside of it, so that if your application nee

by db48x 4y ago

Well, I dunno. libpng needs -lpng16 and -lz. Are you saying that libpng should have a staticly–linked copy of zlib inside of it, so that if your application needs both libpng and zlib you will end up with both? That’s probably unpalatable to most people.

enriquto 4y ago
> libpng needs -lpng16 and -lz Where? I'm compiling the same program with exactly the same makefile on several linux distributions, openbsd, freebsd and macos and "-lpng" is all it needs. This is for dynamic linking. For static linking I need to add -lz explicitly, you are right about that.