Compressed file for Windows port

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Mar 16 17:04:16 EDT 2007


David Brown <gnucash at davidb.org> writes:

> Andreas Köhler wrote:
>
>> What does "calling zlib" mean?  Anyway, see
>>
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2007-February/019876.html.
>> I guess implementation issues belong to gnucash-devel, so let us take it
>> there if there is something new to discuss.
>
> The library under gzip that does the compression can be called
> directly from a program to directly write a compressed stream.  It
> should be easier to port than trying to do things with pipes.

Actually, on Linux it DOES use zlib directly.  Please read the
archives (on -devel) where this has already been discussed.
On Linux it does a fork() and then zlib calls in the child process.
On win32 the fork() could possibly be repaced with g_thread()

> Dave

-derek

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