1Building instructions for the DLL versions of Zlib 1.2.13 2======================================================== 3 4This directory contains projects that build zlib and minizip using 5Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0/10.0. 6 7You don't need to build these projects yourself. You can download the 8binaries from: 9 http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll 10 11More information can be found at this site. 12 13 14 15 16 17Build instructions for Visual Studio 2008 (32 bits or 64 bits) 18-------------------------------------------------------------- 19- Decompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 20- Open contrib\vstudio\vc9\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 21- Or run: vcbuild /rebuild contrib\vstudio\vc9\zlibvc.sln "Release|Win32" 22 23Build instructions for Visual Studio 2010 (32 bits or 64 bits) 24-------------------------------------------------------------- 25- Decompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 26- Open contrib\vstudio\vc10\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 27 28Build instructions for Visual Studio 2012 (32 bits or 64 bits) 29-------------------------------------------------------------- 30- Decompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 31- Open contrib\vstudio\vc11\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 32 33Build instructions for Visual Studio 2013 (32 bits or 64 bits) 34-------------------------------------------------------------- 35- Decompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 36- Open contrib\vstudio\vc12\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 37 38Build instructions for Visual Studio 2015 (32 bits or 64 bits) 39-------------------------------------------------------------- 40- Decompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 41- Open contrib\vstudio\vc14\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 42 43 44Important 45--------- 46- To use zlibwapi.dll in your application, you must define the 47 macro ZLIB_WINAPI when compiling your application's source files. 48 49 50Additional notes 51---------------- 52- This DLL, named zlibwapi.dll, is compatible to the old zlib.dll built 53 by Gilles Vollant from the zlib 1.1.x sources, and distributed at 54 http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll 55 It uses the WINAPI calling convention for the exported functions, and 56 includes the minizip functionality. If your application needs that 57 particular build of zlib.dll, you can rename zlibwapi.dll to zlib.dll. 58 59- The new DLL was renamed because there exist several incompatible 60 versions of zlib.dll on the Internet. 61 62- There is also an official DLL build of zlib, named zlib1.dll. This one 63 is exporting the functions using the CDECL convention. See the file 64 win32\DLL_FAQ.txt found in this zlib distribution. 65 66- There used to be a ZLIB_DLL macro in zlib 1.1.x, but now this symbol 67 has a slightly different effect. To avoid compatibility problems, do 68 not define it here. 69 70 71Gilles Vollant 72info@winimage.com 73 74Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 Projects from Sean Hunt 75seandhunt_7@yahoo.com 76