Comment 5 for bug 1022397

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Simson Garfinkel (simsong) wrote : Re: [Mingw-w64] [Bug 1022397] [NEW] mingw32 and mingw-w64 need zlib-dev and pthreads libraries

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>> Also, the program configure-mingw and configure-mingw64 are also not
>> provided, and they should be.
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> I take it you're referring to Fedora-style configure scripts which add the
> appropriate parameters to configure invocations? (As described in
> http://<email address hidden>/msg02946.html for
> example.) They're not provided in the upstream packages but I can certainly
> add them (along with appropriate pkg-config links).

Yes, that was what I was referring to. They are incredibly useful. Is there any way we could get them into the upstream packages?

Thanks,

Simson