Dynamically link against libz.dylib on OS X?

[dpeek]

Hi Nicolas,

I'm trying to create a homebrew package for Neko and Haxe. Homebrew is a light weight package manager written in Ruby that tries to be a "good citizen" on OS X. Part of that is avoiding installing libraries that already exist on OS X.

Unfortunately OS X does not provide a statically linkable zlib, only a dylib. I have a package working that installs libz as a dependency, but the project owners have asked if it would be possible to link dynamically against libz.dylib.

Thought it was worth asking if it was possible before I tried to do it myself :)
You can see the thread here: Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#20329

(note I'm building against a fork as I needed to add some library paths, currently the make file assumes macports is being used)

Best,
David

[dpeek]

I should have investigated before creating an issue. OS X was passing -static to install.neko, removing this links dynamically of couse.

Could you explain the reason why this flag was set? I'll test this build today and see if I encounter any issues, it would be helpful to understand the reason though :)