| ZLib for Ada thick binding (ZLib.Ada) |
| Release 1.3 |
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| ZLib.Ada is a thick binding interface to the popular ZLib data |
| compression library, available at http://www.gzip.org/zlib/. |
| 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 |
| for Read_Last parameter now. It is a bit incompartible with previous version, |
| but extends functionality, we could use new parameters Allow_Read_Some and |
| 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 |
| Steve Sangwine. |
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| - Fix definition of ULong (changed to unsigned_long), fix regression on 64 bits |
| 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 |
| building ZLib.Ada. Make the directory of ZLib.Ada sources current and |
| 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. |
| 2. Build the libz.a library from the ZLib C sources. |
| 3. Rename libz.a to z.lib. |
| 4. Add the library z.lib to the project. |
| 5. Add the libc.lib library from the ObjectAda distribution to the project. |
| 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 |
| 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/ |
| Author: Dmitriy Anisimkov <anisimkov@yahoo.com> |
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| Contributors: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>, Steve Sangwine <sjs@essex.ac.uk> |