Include zlib.dll in McMillan Installer

[Harald Schneider]

Hello Gordon,

removing zlib.dll from excludes[] in bindepend.py adds zlib.dll to the
archive.
Can I do this by a command in the .spec file?

All the best,
Harald


"Gordon McMillan" <gmcm at hypernet.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:Xns91ED608AADBDEgmcmhypernetcom at 199.171.54.213...
> Harald Schneider wrote:
>
> > is there a possibility to include zlib.dll into the single file
> > distribution of the installer?
> > E.g. PIL uses zlib and complains about missing it on some systems.
>
> In ancient days (1.5.2), zlib.pyd loaded zlib.dll. But
> since then, zlib.pyd has changed to statically link in
> zlib, so zlib.dll should not be needed (in fact, it
> doesn't exist in the distribution).
>
> Installer will always include zlib[.pyd/.so], unless
> your installation doesn't have it, or you turn it off
> by editting config.dat. Windows comes with zlib.pyd,
> so I expect it's there (you can check with ArchiveViewer.py
> to see if it's in the exe).
>
> So more details are needed.
>
> -- Gordon
> http:/www.mcmillan-inc.com/
>
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