= Zlib =


Zlib is a library that provides a general-purpose, legally unencumbered, that is, not covered by any patents, lossless data-compression library. The compression method, an LZ77 variant called deflation, emits compressed data as a sequence of blocks. You can find more about zlib on the zlib web site:

  http://www.zlib.net/
= Building Zlib =


The package builds the library from the original source code.

# Download and unpack the source code for Zlib
# Configure the package
# Make just the libz.a library
# Install the library

 $ wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
 $ tar zxf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
 $ cd zlib-1.2.3
 $ CC=m68k-rtems-gcc ./configure --prefix=/opt/rtems
 $ make libz.a
 $ make install