Index: kitcreator
==================================================================
--- kitcreator
+++ kitcreator
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@
 CONFIGUREEXTRA="$@"
 export CONFIGUREEXTRA
 
 failedpkgs=""
 buildfailed="0"
-for pkg in tcl tk itcl mk4tcl tclvfs kitsh; do
+for pkg in tcl tk itcl mk4tcl tclvfs zlib kitsh; do
 	if [ "${mode}" = "distclean" ]; then
 		rm -rf "${pkg}/src"
 	fi
 
 	if [ "${mode}" = "clean" -o "${mode}" = "distclean" ]; then

Index: kitsh/build.sh
==================================================================
--- kitsh/build.sh
+++ kitsh/build.sh
@@ -31,13 +31,28 @@
 	cp -r 'buildsrc' 'build'
 	cd "${BUILDDIR}" || exit 1
 
 	# Cleanup, just incase the incoming directory was not pre-cleaned
 	${MAKE:-make} distclean >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+
+	# Figure out if zlib compiled
+	ZLIBDIR=$(cd "${OTHERPKGSDIR}/zlib/inst"; pwd)
+	export ZLIBDIR
+	if [ ! -f "${ZLIBDIR}/lib/libz.a" ]; then
+		unset ZLIBDIR
+	fi
 
 	# Compile Kitsh
-	./configure --with-tcl="${TCLCONFIGDIR}" ${CONFIGUREEXTRA}
+	if [ -z "${ZLIBDIR}" ]; then
+		echo "./configure --with-tcl=\"${TCLCONFIGDIR}\" ${CONFIGUREEXTRA}"
+
+		./configure --with-tcl="${TCLCONFIGDIR}" ${CONFIGUREEXTRA}
+	else
+		echo "./configure --with-tcl=\"${TCLCONFIGDIR}\" --with-zlib=\"${ZLIBDIR}\" ${CONFIGUREEXTRA}"
+
+		./configure --with-tcl="${TCLCONFIGDIR}" --with-zlib="${ZLIBDIR}" ${CONFIGUREEXTRA}
+	fi
 	${MAKE:-make} || exit 1
 
 	# Strip the kit of all symbols, if possible
 	strip kit >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
 

ADDED   zlib/build.sh
Index: zlib/build.sh
==================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ zlib/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#! /bin/bash
+
+if [ ! -f 'build.sh' ]; then
+	echo 'ERROR: This script must be run from the directory it is in' >&2
+
+	exit 1
+fi
+if [ -z "${TCLVERS}" ]; then
+	echo 'ERROR: The TCLVERS environment variable is not set' >&2
+
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+ZLIBVERS="1.2.3"
+SRC="src/zlib-${ZLIBVERS}.tar.gz"
+SRCURL="http://www.zlib.net/zlib-${ZLIBVERS}.tar.gz"
+BUILDDIR="$(pwd)/build/zlib-${ZLIBVERS}"
+OUTDIR="$(pwd)/out"
+INSTDIR="$(pwd)/inst"
+export ZLIBVERS SRC SRCURL BUILDDIR OUTDIR INSTDIR
+
+rm -rf 'build' 'out' 'inst'
+mkdir 'build' 'out' 'inst' || exit 1
+
+if [ ! -f "${SRC}" ]; then
+	mkdir 'src' >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+
+	rm -f "${SRC}.tmp"
+	wget -O "${SRC}.tmp" "${SRCURL}" || exit 1
+	mv "${SRC}.tmp" "${SRC}"
+fi
+
+(
+	cd 'build' || exit 1
+
+	if [ ! -d '../buildsrc' ]; then
+		gzip -dc "../${SRC}" | tar -xf -
+	else    
+		cp -rp ../buildsrc/* './'
+	fi
+
+	cd "${BUILDDIR}" || exit 1
+	# We don't pass CONFIGUREEXTRA here, since this isn't a GNU autoconf
+	# script and will puke
+	./configure --prefix="${INSTDIR}"
+
+	${MAKE:-make} || exit 1
+
+	${MAKE:-make} install
+
+	# We don't really care too much about failure in zlib
+	exit 0
+) || exit 1
+
+exit 0