-For your convenience and allowed by zlib's license terms:
-http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html a copy of the zlib source
-is bundled with SimGear. You must have zlib installed before you can
-build SimGear.
+zlib is prerequisite for compiling SimGear and FlightGear. You can fetch
+the latest version of zlib from:
-- Most linux distributions have a zlib package. For linux
- developers, we recommend ysou install your distributions package
- rather than building from source.
+ http://www.zlib.net
-- Cygwin installs zlib automatically.
+Most modern unix distributions (and cygwin) come with a version of zlib
+already installed or available to install as a package.
-- For developers on most other platforms, you will have to build
- zlib from source and install it yourself. For your convenience a
- tar ball of the zlib source is included with the simgear source
- distribution. Untar the zlib source, and follow the included
- build and installation instructions.
-
-Once zlib is installed you can return to configuring and building
-Simgear.
-
-We now send you to the official zlib README ...
-
-
-=============================================================================
-
-zlib 1.1.3 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code
-is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library
-is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files
-ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate
-format) and rfc1952.txt (gzip format). These documents are also available in
-other formats from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html
-
-All functions of the compression library are documented in the file zlib.h
-(volunteer to write man pages welcome, contact jloup@gzip.org). A usage
-example of the library is given in the file example.c which also tests that
-the library is working correctly. Another example is given in the file
-minigzip.c. The compression library itself is composed of all source files
-except example.c and minigzip.c.
-
-To compile all files and run the test program, follow the instructions
-given at the top of Makefile. In short "make test; make install"
-should work for most machines. For Unix: "configure; make test; make install"
-For MSDOS, use one of the special makefiles such as Makefile.msc.
-For VMS, use Make_vms.com or descrip.mms.
-
-Questions about zlib should be sent to <zlib@quest.jpl.nasa.gov>, or to
-Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com> for the Windows DLL version.
-The zlib home page is http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
-The official zlib ftp site is ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
-Before reporting a problem, please check those sites to verify that
-you have the latest version of zlib; otherwise get the latest version and
-check whether the problem still exists or not.
-
-Mark Nelson <markn@tiny.com> wrote an article about zlib for the Jan. 1997
-issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in
-http://web2.airmail.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm
-
-The changes made in version 1.1.3 are documented in the file ChangeLog.
-The main changes since 1.1.2 are:
-
-- fix "an inflate input buffer bug that shows up on rare but persistent
- occasions" (Mark)
-- fix gzread and gztell for concatenated .gz files (Didier Le Botlan)
-- fix gzseek(..., SEEK_SET) in write mode
-- fix crc check after a gzeek (Frank Faubert)
-- fix miniunzip when the last entry in a zip file is itself a zip file
- (J Lillge)
-- add contrib/asm586 and contrib/asm686 (Brian Raiter)
- See http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/assembly.html
-- add support for Delphi 3 in contrib/delphi (Bob Dellaca)
-- add support for C++Builder 3 and Delphi 3 in contrib/delphi2 (Davide Moretti)
-- do not exit prematurely in untgz if 0 at start of block (Magnus Holmgren)
-- use macro EXTERN instead of extern to support DLL for BeOS (Sander Stoks)
-- added a FAQ file
-
-plus many changes for portability.
-
-Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib".
-
-A Java implementation of zlib is available in the Java Development Kit 1.1
-http://www.javasoft.com/products/JDK/1.1/docs/api/Package-java.util.zip.html
-See the zlib home page http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ for details.
-
-A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
-is in the CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites, such as:
-ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/Compress/Compress-Zlib*
-
-A Python interface to zlib written by A.M. Kuchling <amk@magnet.com>
-is available in Python 1.5 and later versions, see
-http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-zlib.html
-
-A zlib binding for TCL written by Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>
-is availlable at http://www.westend.com/~kupries/doc/trf/man/man.html
-
-An experimental package to read and write files in .zip format,
-written on top of zlib by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>, is
-available at http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html
-and also in the contrib/minizip directory of zlib.
-
-
-Notes for some targets:
-
-- To build a Windows DLL version, include in a DLL project zlib.def, zlib.rc
- and all .c files except example.c and minigzip.c; compile with -DZLIB_DLL
- The zlib DLL support was initially done by Alessandro Iacopetti and is
- now maintained by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>. Check the zlib DLL
- home page at http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll
-
- From Visual Basic, you can call the DLL functions which do not take
- a structure as argument: compress, uncompress and all gz* functions.
- See contrib/visual-basic.txt for more information, or get
- http://www.tcfb.com/dowseware/cmp-z-it.zip
-
-- For 64-bit Irix, deflate.c must be compiled without any optimization.
- With -O, one libpng test fails. The test works in 32 bit mode (with
- the -n32 compiler flag). The compiler bug has been reported to SGI.
-
-- zlib doesn't work with gcc 2.6.3 on a DEC 3000/300LX under OSF/1 2.1
- it works when compiled with cc.
-
-- on Digital Unix 4.0D (formely OSF/1) on AlphaServer, the cc option -std1
- is necessary to get gzprintf working correctly. This is done by configure.
-
-- zlib doesn't work on HP-UX 9.05 with some versions of /bin/cc. It works
- with other compilers. Use "make test" to check your compiler.
-
-- gzdopen is not supported on RISCOS, BEOS and by some Mac compilers.
-
-- For Turbo C the small model is supported only with reduced performance to
- avoid any far allocation; it was tested with -DMAX_WBITS=11 -DMAX_MEM_LEVEL=3
-
-- For PalmOs, see http://www.cs.uit.no/~perm/PASTA/pilot/software.html
- Per Harald Myrvang <perm@stud.cs.uit.no>
-
-
-Acknowledgments:
-
- The deflate format used by zlib was defined by Phil Katz. The deflate
- and zlib specifications were written by L. Peter Deutsch. Thanks to all the
- people who reported problems and suggested various improvements in zlib;
- they are too numerous to cite here.
-
-Copyright notice:
-
- (C) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
-
- This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
- warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
- arising from the use of this software.
-
- Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
- including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
- freely, subject to the following restrictions:
-
- 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
- claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
- in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
- appreciated but is not required.
- 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
- misrepresented as being the original software.
- 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
-
- Jean-loup Gailly Mark Adler
- jloup@gzip.org madler@alumni.caltech.edu
-
-If you use the zlib library in a product, we would appreciate *not*
-receiving lengthy legal documents to sign. The sources are provided
-for free but without warranty of any kind. The library has been
-entirely written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler; it does not
-include third-party code.
-
-If you redistribute modified sources, we would appreciate that you include
-in the file ChangeLog history information documenting your changes.
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