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Use zlib inside another library [message #47638]

Mon, 20 February 2017 19:41

mdelfede
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Hi,

I've got a peculiar problem... I'm importing 'libarchive', which I need to decompress various archive formats.
On linux no problems, as usual, we've zlib there.
On windows no zlib, and the libarchive library has 2 options :

1) define HAVE_ZLIB_H, and it will try to include <zlib.h> (which is missing on windows)
2) not define HAVE_ZLIB_H and it will drop support for this kind of compression.

As we've zlib into z package, I wonder if there's a way to use it without having to patch libarchive sources.
I mean... is there a way, from package organizer, to make #include <zlib.h> to use the plugin/z/lib/zlib.h one ?
Possibily without having to hard-code the full path into package organizer, as my libarchive is on a nest OUTSIDE upp folders.
I tried with compiler option -I, but it needs a complete path. Something like providing a $PACKAGE_PATH into package organizer could do the trick, in this case entering something like
-I$PACKAGE_PATH("plugin/z")/lib

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Re: Use zlib inside another library [message #47639 is a reply to message #47638]

Mon, 20 February 2017 19:45

mdelfede
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anyways, I've seen that putting 'lib' as internal includes for plugin/z package do the trick.
Is it possible to have it as a default on windows ? I think that zlib could be quite useful for other packages too...

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Re: Use zlib inside another library [message #47679 is a reply to message #47639]

Sat, 04 March 2017 17:49

mirek
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Sure, but could you send me exact .upp file (or .diff or somethin) so that I am sure I am fixing the right thing?

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Re: Use zlib inside another library [message #47702 is a reply to message #47679]

Tue, 07 March 2017 18:36

mdelfede
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Hi Mirek, shure!

Here you have my Archive package (don't look at it too much, is just the bare minimum for what I need, it could be extended to use the whole libarchive library).

The problemi is the usage of ZLIB and BZLIB, already present in UPP; the only way I found to do it is to add an internal include to both packages.

It would be better to find a way to "import" the zlib and bzip code from the Archive package and not the way around as I'm doing now.

Thank you

Massimo

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Re: Use zlib inside another library [message #47703 is a reply to message #47702]

Tue, 07 March 2017 23:27

mirek
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Checking archive... there is now a new way how to integrate 3rd party libs like this. Check bazaar/plugin/gdal.

http://www.ultimatepp.org/app$ide$importext$en-us.html

As to the original problem, I think one way would be to add "zip.h" file to Archive folder which will contain "#include <plugin/z/lib/zlib.h>" and would be picked by this Archive's .ext file.

Mirek

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