Re: zlib detection in Meson on Windows broken?

On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 16:04, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2024-05-20 11:58:05 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > I have very little experience with Meson, and even less interpreting it's
> > logs, but it seems to me that it's not including the extra lib and
> include
> > directories when it runs the test compile, given the command line it's
> > reporting:
> >
> > cl
> C:\Users\dpage\git\postgresql\build\meson-private\tmpg_h4xcue\testfile.c
> > /nologo /showIncludes /utf-8 /EP /nologo /showIncludes /utf-8 /EP /Od
> /Oi-
> >
> > Bug, or am I doing something silly?
>
> It's a buglet. We rely on meson's internal fallback detection of zlib, if
> it's
> not provided via pkg-config or cmake. But it doesn't know about our
> extra_include_dirs parameter. We should probably fix that...
>

Oh good, then I'm not going bonkers. I'm still curious about how it works
for Andrew but not me, however fixing that buglet should solve my issue,
and would be sensible behaviour.

Thanks!

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