[Mono-list] [System.IO.Compression] OutOfMemory exception on DeflateStream instantiation

[Generic 2006]

On 12/09/2006 03:31 PM, Andreia Gaita wrote:
> You need to compile mono, or at least the libMonoPosixHelper library,
> with the zlib devel libs. Your libMonoPosixHelper library probably
> only has stubs in the place of the compression methods, returning
> null, hence your exception.
>
> andreia gaita
>
> On 12/7/06, Generic 2006 <generic2006 at libero.it> wrote:
>   
>> On 12/07/2006 12:54 PM, Andreia Gaita wrote:
>>     
>>> On 12/5/06, Generic 2006 <generic2006 at libero.it> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Someone suggests this is a misleading exception indicating that the zlib
>>>> version on the system is too old (<1.2.0.4), but I have verified that
>>>> its version on my system (Debian sarge stable) is OK (1.2.2).
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any suggestion, please?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Did you compile Mono, or installed the package? Which version of Mono
>>> do you have currently?
>>>
>>> andreia gaita
>>> Mono Team
>>>       
>> 1.1.16 (package). I know I'm not so updated, but anyway I couldn't find
>> any bugfix related to such an issue ([1] bug status seems still
>> currently open).
>>
>> [1] http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79665
>>     
Many thanks, Andreia!
Now it's all clear -- I evidently wasn't aware of the inner workings of
the library.