Index: zlib/build.sh
==================================================================
--- zlib/build.sh
+++ zlib/build.sh
@@ -15,11 +15,13 @@
 SRC="src/zlib-${ZLIBVERS}.tar.gz"
 SRCURL="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/zlib/${ZLIBVERS}/zlib-${ZLIBVERS}.tar.gz/download"
 BUILDDIR="$(pwd)/build/zlib-${ZLIBVERS}"
 OUTDIR="$(pwd)/out"
 INSTDIR="$(pwd)/inst"
-export ZLIBVERS SRC SRCURL BUILDDIR OUTDIR INSTDIR
+PATCHSCRIPTDIR="$(pwd)/patchscripts"
+PATCHDIR="$(pwd)/patches"
+export ZLIBVERS SRC SRCURL BUILDDIR OUTDIR INSTDIR PATCHSCRIPTDIR PATCHDIR
 
 # Set configure options for this sub-project
 LDFLAGS="${KC_ZLIB_LDFLAGS}"
 CFLAGS="${KC_ZLIB_CFLAGS}"
 CPPFLAGS="${KC_ZLIB_CPPFLAGS}"
@@ -47,13 +49,32 @@
 	else    
 		cp -rp ../buildsrc/* './'
 	fi
 
 	cd "${BUILDDIR}" || exit 1
-	# ZLIB Expects AR to contain options
-	AR="${AR:-ar} rcu"
-	export AR
+
+	# Apply patches if needed
+	for patch in "${PATCHDIR}/all"/zlib-${ZLIBVERS}-*.diff "${PATCHDIR}/all"/zlib-all-*.diff "${PATCHDIR}/${ZLIBVERS}"/zlib-${ZLIBVERS}-*.diff; do
+		if [ ! -f "${patch}" ]; then
+			continue
+		fi
+
+		echo "Applying: ${patch}"
+		${PATCH:-patch} -p1 < "${patch}"
+	done
+
+
+	# Apply patch scripts if needed
+	for patchscript in "${PATCHSCRIPTDIR}"/*.sh; do
+		if [ -f "${patchscript}" ]; then
+			echo "Running patch script: ${patchscript}"
+
+			(
+				. "${patchscript}"
+			)
+		fi
+	done
 
 	# If we are building for KitDLL, compile with '-fPIC'
 	if [ "${KITTARGET}" = "kitdll" ]; then
 		CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fPIC"
 		export CFLAGS
@@ -62,16 +83,16 @@
 	# We don't pass CONFIGUREEXTRA here, since this isn't a GNU autoconf
 	# script and will puke
 	echo "Running: ./configure --prefix=\"${INSTDIR}\" --libdir=\"${INSTDIR}/lib\""
 	./configure --prefix="${INSTDIR}" --libdir="${INSTDIR}/lib"
 
-	echo "Running: ${MAKE:-make} AR=\"${AR}\""
-	${MAKE:-make} AR="${AR}" || exit 1
+	echo "Running: ${MAKE:-make}"
+	${MAKE:-make} || exit 1
 
-	echo "Running: ${MAKE:-make} install AR=\"${AR}\""
-	${MAKE:-make} install AR="${AR}"
+	echo "Running: ${MAKE:-make} install"
+	${MAKE:-make} install
 
 	# We don't really care too much about failure in zlib
 	exit 0
 ) || exit 1
 
 exit 0

ADDED   zlib/patches/1.2.8/zlib-1.2.8-enable-configure.diff
Index: zlib/patches/1.2.8/zlib-1.2.8-enable-configure.diff
==================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ zlib/patches/1.2.8/zlib-1.2.8-enable-configure.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -uNr zlib-1.2.8.orig/configure zlib-1.2.8/configure
+--- zlib-1.2.8.orig/configure	2013-03-23 22:30:09 -0700
++++ zlib-1.2.8/configure	2013-11-05 00:33:39 -0800
+@@ -191,10 +191,6 @@
+   CYGWIN* | Cygwin* | cygwin* | OS/2*)
+         EXE='.exe' ;;
+   MINGW* | mingw*)
+-# temporary bypass
+-        rm -f $test.[co] $test $test$shared_ext
+-        echo "Please use win32/Makefile.gcc instead." | tee -a configure.log
+-        leave 1
+         LDSHARED=${LDSHARED-"$cc -shared"}
+         LDSHAREDLIBC=""
+         EXE='.exe' ;;