1Building instructions for the DLL versions of Zlib 1.2.11 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- Compile assembly code (with Visual Studio Command Prompt) by running: 21 bld_ml64.bat (in contrib\masmx64) 22 bld_ml32.bat (in contrib\masmx86) 23- Open contrib\vstudio\vc9\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 24- Or run: vcbuild /rebuild contrib\vstudio\vc9\zlibvc.sln "Release|Win32" 25 26Build instructions for Visual Studio 2010 (32 bits or 64 bits) 27-------------------------------------------------------------- 28- Decompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 29- Open contrib\vstudio\vc10\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 30 31Build instructions for Visual Studio 2012 (32 bits or 64 bits) 32-------------------------------------------------------------- 33- Decompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 34- Open contrib\vstudio\vc11\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 35 36Build instructions for Visual Studio 2013 (32 bits or 64 bits) 37-------------------------------------------------------------- 38- Decompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 39- Open contrib\vstudio\vc12\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 40 41Build instructions for Visual Studio 2015 (32 bits or 64 bits) 42-------------------------------------------------------------- 43- Decompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 44- Open contrib\vstudio\vc14\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 45 46 47Important 48--------- 49- To use zlibwapi.dll in your application, you must define the 50 macro ZLIB_WINAPI when compiling your application's source files. 51 52 53Additional notes 54---------------- 55- This DLL, named zlibwapi.dll, is compatible to the old zlib.dll built 56 by Gilles Vollant from the zlib 1.1.x sources, and distributed at 57 http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll 58 It uses the WINAPI calling convention for the exported functions, and 59 includes the minizip functionality. If your application needs that 60 particular build of zlib.dll, you can rename zlibwapi.dll to zlib.dll. 61 62- The new DLL was renamed because there exist several incompatible 63 versions of zlib.dll on the Internet. 64 65- There is also an official DLL build of zlib, named zlib1.dll. This one 66 is exporting the functions using the CDECL convention. See the file 67 win32\DLL_FAQ.txt found in this zlib distribution. 68 69- There used to be a ZLIB_DLL macro in zlib 1.1.x, but now this symbol 70 has a slightly different effect. To avoid compatibility problems, do 71 not define it here. 72 73 74Gilles Vollant 75info@winimage.com 76 77Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 Projects from Sean Hunt 78seandhunt_7@yahoo.com 79