[LLVMdev] proposal to avoid zlib dependency.

Filip Pizlo fpizlo at apple.com
Tue Sep 16 15:21:12 PDT 2014


What is the downside of Zlib dependency?  I'm curious! :-)

-Filip

> On Sep 16, 2014, at 2:45 PM, Christophe Duvernois <christophe.duvernois at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Miniz (https://code.google.com/p/miniz/ ) is very small and performant implementation of zlib compression with api compatibility and it is public domain...
> Miniz can be integrated directly into the llvm source code.
> So it could be a good replacement or alternative to avoid zlib dependency...
> 
> If someone is interested i can provide a patch.
> 
> Regards
> Christophe
> 
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