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      1 Building instructions for the DLL versions of Zlib 1.2.3
      2 ========================================================
      3 
      4 This directory contains projects that build zlib and minizip using
      5 Microsoft Visual C++ 7.0/7.1, and Visual C++ .
      6 
      7 You don't need to build these projects yourself. You can download the
      8 binaries from:
      9   http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll
     10 
     11 More information can be found at this site.
     12 
     13 
     14 Build instructions for Visual Studio 7.x (32 bits)
     15 --------------------------------------------------
     16 - Uncompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files
     17 - Download the crtdll library from
     18     http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/crtdll.zip
     19   Unzip crtdll.zip to extract crtdll.lib on contrib\vstudio\vc7.
     20 - Open contrib\vstudio\vc7\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 7.x
     21   (Visual Studio .Net 2002 or 2003).
     22 
     23 Build instructions for Visual Studio 2005 (32 bits or 64 bits)
     24 --------------------------------------------------------------
     25 - Uncompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files
     26 - For 32 bits only: download the crtdll library from
     27     http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/crtdll.zip
     28   Unzip crtdll.zip to extract crtdll.lib on contrib\vstudio\vc8.
     29 - Open contrib\vstudio\vc8\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0
     30 
     31 Build instructions for Visual Studio 2005 64 bits, PSDK compiler
     32 ----------------------------------------------------------------
     33 at the time of writing this text file, Visual Studio 2005 (and 
     34   Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0) is on the beta 2 stage.
     35 Using you can get the free 64 bits compiler from Platform SDK, 
     36   which is NOT a beta, and compile using the Visual studio 2005 IDE
     37 see http://www.winimage.com/misc/sdk64onvs2005/ for instruction
     38 
     39 - Uncompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files
     40 - start Visual Studio 2005 from a platform SDK command prompt, using
     41   the /useenv switch
     42 - Open contrib\vstudio\vc8\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0
     43 
     44 
     45 Important
     46 ---------
     47 - To use zlibwapi.dll in your application, you must define the
     48   macro ZLIB_WINAPI when compiling your application's source files.
     49 
     50 
     51 Additional notes
     52 ----------------
     53 - This DLL, named zlibwapi.dll, is compatible to the old zlib.dll built
     54   by Gilles Vollant from the zlib 1.1.x sources, and distributed at
     55     http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll
     56   It uses the WINAPI calling convention for the exported functions, and
     57   includes the minizip functionality. If your application needs that
     58   particular build of zlib.dll, you can rename zlibwapi.dll to zlib.dll.
     59 
     60 - The new DLL was renamed because there exist several incompatible
     61   versions of zlib.dll on the Internet.
     62 
     63 - There is also an official DLL build of zlib, named zlib1.dll. This one
     64   is exporting the functions using the CDECL convention. See the file
     65   win32\DLL_FAQ.txt found in this zlib distribution.
     66 
     67 - There used to be a ZLIB_DLL macro in zlib 1.1.x, but now this symbol
     68   has a slightly different effect. To avoid compatibility problems, do
     69   not define it here.
     70 
     71 
     72 Gilles Vollant
     73 info (a] winimage.com
     74