[LLVMdev] proposal to avoid zlib dependency.

[Óscar Fuentes]

Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd at compnerd.org> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> If you build with configure+make, just run configure with —disable-zlib.
>> We do this routinely, so I’m pretty sure it works.
>>
>
> It "works" as in it builds.  However, the support for it is disabled since
> zlib::compress will always return StatusUnsupported, so the debug
> information will just not be compressed.  Effectively, compressed DWARF is
> unsupported on Windows.

IIUC zlib availability is tested and the library used if present. Do you
mean that LLVM does not use zlib on Windows when the library is present?