Does not work with winrt (Windows 8)

[leonbloy]

From [email protected] on November 01, 2012 20:57:45

A new build should be done for WinRT.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/pngcs/issues/detail?id=4

[leonbloy]

From [email protected] on November 01, 2012 17:02:56

A problem has been reported by a user running this on Win8
"Cannot find type System.ApplicationException"
and digging inside a most serious problem was found: Aparently because SharpZip lib depends on a class SymmetricAlgorithm that's not available (at least not in the same way?) in WinRT. SharpZipLib should be recompiled for WinRT, and things do not seem simple

On the bright side, .Net 4.5 seems to have a better implementation of Deflate/Inflate (the previous was terrible), perhaps we can build against it and not need SharpZipLib anymore.

Some links, perhaps relevant: http://eldos.com/forum/read.php?FID=7&TID=3990 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12894406/inflating-a-compressed-byte-array-in-winrt

[leonbloy]

From [email protected] on December 17, 2012 06:38:47

Almost done, with the new version 1.1.4 that does not use SharpZip . Next step (soon), migrate to the new "portable class library" project type

Status: Started

[leonbloy]

From [email protected] on December 22, 2012 13:02:23

To build and distribute this as a "portable class library" would be indeed nice. What's not nice is that VS2012 Express does not support portable class libraries, for that you must buy VS2012 Professional. Well, I won't.