Add a warning regarding the ZLib ASM "optimizations" that are known to be
buggy.
* INSTALL: In "Building the Latest Source under Windows"
Discussed in users@:
@@ -1034,6 +1034,12 @@ II. INSTALLATION
Note that you'd make sure to define ZLIB_WINAPI in the ZLib config
header and move the lib-file into the zlib root-directory.
+ Please note that you MUST NOT build ZLib with the included assembler
+ optimized code. It is known to be buggy, see for example the discussion
+ https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2013-10/0109.shtml.
+ This means that you must not define ASMV or ASMINF. Note that the VS
+ projects in contrib\visualstudio define these in the Debug configuration.
+
Apache Serf
### Section about Apache Serf might be required/useful to add.
@@ -1444,8 +1450,8 @@ IV. PLATFORM-SPECIFIC ISSUES
https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/#xpbug
And there's an item about this in the Subversion FAQ:
-
- https://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#windows-xp-server
+ttps://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#windows-xp-server
+ h
The only known workaround for now is to update to Windows XP
SP1 (or higher).
