1 Building instructions for the DLL versions of Zlib 1.2.4 2 ======================================================== 3 4 This directory contains projects that build zlib and minizip using 5 Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0/10.0, 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 first compile assembly code by running 14 bld_ml64.bat in contrib\masmx64 15 bld_ml32.bat in contrib\masmx86 16 17 18 19 20 Build instructions for Visual Studio 2008 (32 bits or 64 bits) 21 -------------------------------------------------------------- 22 - Uncompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 23 - Open contrib\vstudio\vc9\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008.0 24 - Or run: vcbuild /rebuild contrib\vstudio\vc9\zlibvc.sln "Release|Win32" 25 26 Build instructions for Visual Studio 2010 (32 bits or 64 bits) 27 -------------------------------------------------------------- 28 - Uncompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files 29 - Open contrib\vstudio\vc10\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2010.0 30 31 32 Important 33 --------- 34 - To use zlibwapi.dll in your application, you must define the 35 macro ZLIB_WINAPI when compiling your application's source files. 36 37 38 Additional notes 39 ---------------- 40 - This DLL, named zlibwapi.dll, is compatible to the old zlib.dll built 41 by Gilles Vollant from the zlib 1.1.x sources, and distributed at 42 http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll 43 It uses the WINAPI calling convention for the exported functions, and 44 includes the minizip functionality. If your application needs that 45 particular build of zlib.dll, you can rename zlibwapi.dll to zlib.dll. 46 47 - The new DLL was renamed because there exist several incompatible 48 versions of zlib.dll on the Internet. 49 50 - There is also an official DLL build of zlib, named zlib1.dll. This one 51 is exporting the functions using the CDECL convention. See the file 52 win32\DLL_FAQ.txt found in this zlib distribution. 53 54 - There used to be a ZLIB_DLL macro in zlib 1.1.x, but now this symbol 55 has a slightly different effect. To avoid compatibility problems, do 56 not define it here. 57 58 59 Gilles Vollant 60 info (a] winimage.com 61
