Compress::Zlib Version 0.3 12th October 1995 Copyright (c) 1995 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. WARNING THIS IS ALPHA CODE. Please take care when using it. Please report any problems. Also note that at the time of writing, zlib is still beta. DESCRIPTION ----------- This module provides a Perl interface to part of the info-zip zlib compression library. For more details see the pod documentation embedded in the file Zlib.pm. PREREQUISITES ------------- Before you can build Compress::Zlib you need to have the following thing installed on your system: * Perl 5.001m or better * xsubpp 1.922 or better * Info-zip zlib 0.95 or better BUILDING THE MODULE ------------------- Assuming you have met all the prerequisites, building the module should be relatively straightforward. The only things you might have to change for building the module are the names of the directories where the zlib library, libz, is installed and the directory where zlib.h, zconf.h and zutil.h is stored. Edit Makefile.PL and change ZLIB_LIB and ZLIB_INCLUDE if necessary. Note that by default zlib will not install the zutil.h include file. The module can now be built using this sequence of commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test INSTALLATION ------------ make install FEEDBACK -------- I have tested Compress::Zlib on both SunOS 4.1.3 (Sun C compiler) and Solaris 2.3 (Sun C compiler again). If you are building the module on another architecture I would appreciate a note to tell me how you got on. Although I am particularly interested to hear about any problems you encounter when building the system, I would still like to hear from you even if you don't. Things I particularly would like to know * The Operating system name and version, e.g. SunOS 4.1.3 * Architecture Solaris * C compiler e.g. gcc * Where there any warnings/errors pronted by the C compiler? If so please send the exact output. CHANGES ------- 0.1 - first alpha release. 2nd October 1995 0.2 - Fixed a minor allocation problem in Zlib.xs 0.2 - Paul Marquess