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ZLib for Ada thick binding (ZLib.Ada) |
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Release 1.3 |
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ZLib.Ada is a thick binding interface to the popular ZLib data |
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compression library, available at http://www.gzip.org/zlib/. |
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It provides Ada-style access to the ZLib C library. |
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Here are the main changes since ZLib.Ada 1.2: |
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- Attension: ZLib.Read generic routine have a initialization requirement |
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for Read_Last parameter now. It is a bit incompartible with previous version, |
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but extends functionality, we could use new parameters Allow_Read_Some and |
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Flush now. |
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- Added Is_Open routines to ZLib and ZLib.Streams packages. |
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- Add pragma Assert to check Stream_Element is 8 bit. |
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- Fix extraction to buffer with exact known decompressed size. Error reported by |
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Steve Sangwine. |
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- Fix definition of ULong (changed to unsigned_long), fix regression on 64 bits |
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computers. Patch provided by Pascal Obry. |
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- Add Status_Error exception definition. |
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- Add pragma Assertion that Ada.Streams.Stream_Element size is 8 bit. |
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How to build ZLib.Ada under GNAT |
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You should have the ZLib library already build on your computer, before |
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building ZLib.Ada. Make the directory of ZLib.Ada sources current and |
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issue the command: |
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gnatmake test -largs -L<directory where libz.a is> -lz |
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Or use the GNAT project file build for GNAT 3.15 or later: |
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gnatmake -Pzlib.gpr -L<directory where libz.a is> |
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How to build ZLib.Ada under Aonix ObjectAda for Win32 7.2.2 |
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1. Make a project with all *.ads and *.adb files from the distribution. |
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2. Build the libz.a library from the ZLib C sources. |
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3. Rename libz.a to z.lib. |
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4. Add the library z.lib to the project. |
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5. Add the libc.lib library from the ObjectAda distribution to the project. |
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6. Build the executable using test.adb as a main procedure. |
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How to use ZLib.Ada |
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The source files test.adb and read.adb are small demo programs that show |
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the main functionality of ZLib.Ada. |
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The routines from the package specifications are commented. |
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Homepage: http://zlib-ada.sourceforge.net/ |
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Author: Dmitriy Anisimkov <anisimkov@yahoo.com> |
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Contributors: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>, Steve Sangwine <sjs@essex.ac.uk> |
