Note that we don't need zlib for our uncompressed zip file.

build/compile.sh

@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ Modules/main.c
Modules/gcmodule.c
'

# The stuff in Modules/Setup.dist, plus zlibmodule.c and signalmodule.c.
# NOTE: In Pyhon, signalmodule.c is specified in Modules/Setup.config, which
# comes from 'configure' output.
# The stuff in Modules/Setup.dist, signalmodule.c.  NOTE: In Python,
# signalmodule.c is specified in Modules/Setup.config, which comes from
# 'configure' output.
MODOBJS='
Modules/posixmodule.c
Modules/errnomodule.c  
@@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ build() {
  # NOTE:
  # -l readline -l termcap -- for Python readline.  Hm it builds without -l
  # termcap.
  # -l z , for zlibmodule.c, for zipimport
  # I think zlib is a statically linked dependency only, but it's still better
  # not to have it.
  # -l z WOULD be needed for zlibmodule.c, but we don't need it because our zip
  # file has no compression -- see build/make_zip.py with ZIP_STORED.
  # zipimport works fine without this.
}

# build the optimized one.  Makefile uses -O3.