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This is a follow up to the 2.7 release, fixing various serious issues

• Added support for snapshots in ZIP files instead of in directories (#128)
• Fixed an issue in Info XML parsing caused by inappropriately relying on the current locale's rules (#143) [Julian Sikorski]
• Fixed a bug where updates to the snapshot path failed to trigger an update of the info panel
• Removed accidentally introduced dependency on libwinpthread-1.dll

Having issues trying to compile this, CMake cannot find quazip:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:47 (find_package):
By not providing "FindQuaZip-Qt6.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
"QuaZip-Qt6", but CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "QuaZip-Qt6" with
any of the following names:

QuaZip-Qt6Config.cmake
quazip-qt6-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "QuaZip-Qt6" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"QuaZip-Qt6_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"QuaZip-Qt6" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.
OS is Arch Linux - and I do have Qt6 installed.

For the 2.7 release, I stopped bundling QuaZip and instead I'm relying on the caller to have it, no different than ZLib or Expat. (Why oh why does Qt - which seems to have everything under the sun - does not have built in ZIP handling is not clear to me)

I'm very open to the possibility that I'm not using CMake in a completely kosher fashion.

Yeah, I do have Quazip installed too, but it's not likely a Qt6 version. I think I have a total of one application that uses Qt6. (Upon checking, quazip does indeed depend on Qt5)

The Quazip and Qt6 situation is a bit tricky indeed. For the nitty-gritty please refer to https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/quazip/pull-request/3. In brief, Qt has stopped shipping pkgconfig files since the build system switched from qmake to cmake, which leads to dependency issues with quazip installation.

I'm curious if I should change the CMakeLists.txt to make QuaZip be optional. Obviously any build resulting from that would not have any functionality that required ZIP support (snapshot and icon archives, MAMEUI-style media auditing in the future) would be hampered by the lack of ZIP functionality, but would still result in a more or less functional BletchMAME.

I am not sure - Fedora's QuaZip was fixed so that it can be installed, I guess other distributions are going to take care of that as well at some point.