zlib

What's needed? Get zlib 1.1.4 from zlib homepage (SourceForge download).

Note that these build notes are for library release and debug builds.

Because there don't seem to be any general library naming conventions on Windows platform, I named the libraries as:

zlib.lib

Release build, version 1.1.4

zlibD.lib

Debug build, version 1.1.4

And put the include files to subdirectory zlib under include.

As usual, I upped the warning level of Debug build, so you'll get a lots of warnings. Didn't start cleaning the code, but at least that indicates that perhaps someone should.. Also, release build is optimized quite heavily.

I'm in the habit of grabbing precompiled headers and program database, too, although I'm not sure what to do with precompiled header file yet.. At least if I happen to learn that I'll have the correct one from build available. Program database is unlikely to be needed, but should I get a crash in zlib, it's good to have the database around. Still, those are created to Output Directory now.

Downloads:

My project & solution files.

Header files to put into include-dir.