bzip2 without external dependencies

[Joe Vender]

venona wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:22:11 -0600
> Joe Vender <jvender at owensboro.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there a way to (native) build bzip2 read-write support into GnuPG 
>>1.3.4, using MinGW+MSYS, so that gpg.exe, once built, needs no external 
>>bzip2 components (such as libbz2.dll) installed on the system to work? 
> 
> 
> Take the following steps.
> 
> 1. Get the source code of bzip2 1.0.2 from 
>    ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz
> 
> 2. Change the 116th line of bzlib.h to
>    #if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__MINGW32__)
> 
> 3. Execute the "make" command of bzip2. libbz2.a will be generated.
> 
> 4. Copy the modified bzlib.h to "include" subdirectory in your "MinGW" directory.
> 
> 5. Copy libbz2.a to "lib" subdirectory in your "MinGW" directory.
> 
> Then build gpg.exe of GnuPG 1.3.4 with MSYS. libbz2.a will be
> statically linked with gpg.exe.
> 
> 
> 
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Thank you very much for the details.