Re: LuaRocks can't find libz.so or libz.dll when installing lzlib

[Hisham <h@...>]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Choonster TheMage
<choonster.2010@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Hisham <h@hisham.hm> wrote:
>>  Oops, there's a "libraries" entry missing from build.modules.zlib in
>> that rockspec. I'd upload a new version, but I suspect that just
>> adding build.modules.zlib.libraries = "z" there (like I did for
>> build.modules.gzip) won't work on Windows. What is the name of the
>> .lib file for zlib on Windows? Please try editing the rockspec and use
>> that name for the value of build.modules.zlib.libraries and
>> build.modules.gzip.libraries, but without the .lib extension (LuaRocks
>> auto-adds that extension).
>>
>> Once we figure out what's the correct incantation for Windows, I can
>> add a build.platforms section in the rockspec to cope with the naming
>> differences between Unix and Windows.
>>
>> -- Hisham
>>
>
> The pre-compiled DLL package I downloaded included two different
> folders, each with a 32 and x64 variety. There was a .lib file in each
> of these, "dllx64\zlibwapi.lib" (the same folder as the DLL) and
> "staticx64\zlibstat.lib" (which I copied into the dllx64 folder). I
> tried setting build.modules.(zlib/gzip).libraries to both of these
> .lib files, but I just got the same "unresolved external symbol"
> errors as before.
>
> I'm using the DLL (and .libs) from this package:
> http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/zlib125dll.zip
>
> And the header from this source package:
> http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/zlib125.zip
>
> Here's a paste of the rockspec using zlibwapi.lib:
> http://pastebin.com/unA1ArJX

That rockspec should be correct and I don't know what's wrong in the
"cl" and "link" commands being output... I'm stumped on this one.
Hopefully someone knowledgeable on Windows will chime in.

-- Hisham