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      1 Building instructions for the DLL versions of Zlib 1.3.1
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      4 This directory contains projects that build zlib and minizip using
      5 Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0/10.0.
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      7 You don't need to build these projects yourself. You can download the
      8 binaries from:
      9   http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll
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     11 More information can be found at this site.
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     17 Build 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"
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     23 Build 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
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     28 Build 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
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     33 Build 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
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     38 Build 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
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     43 Build instructions for Visual Studio 2022 (64 bits)
     44 --------------------------------------------------------------
     45 - Decompress current zlib, including all contrib/* files
     46 - Open contrib\vstudio\vc143\zlibvc.sln with Microsoft Visual C++ 2022
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     50 Important
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     52 - To use zlibwapi.dll in your application, you must define the
     53   macro ZLIB_WINAPI when compiling your application's source files.
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     56 Additional notes
     57 ----------------
     58 - This DLL, named zlibwapi.dll, is compatible to the old zlib.dll built
     59   by Gilles Vollant from the zlib 1.1.x sources, and distributed at
     60     http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll
     61   It uses the WINAPI calling convention for the exported functions, and
     62   includes the minizip functionality. If your application needs that
     63   particular build of zlib.dll, you can rename zlibwapi.dll to zlib.dll.
     64 
     65 - The new DLL was renamed because there exist several incompatible
     66   versions of zlib.dll on the Internet.
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     68 - There is also an official DLL build of zlib, named zlib1.dll. This one
     69   is exporting the functions using the CDECL convention. See the file
     70   win32\DLL_FAQ.txt found in this zlib distribution.
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     72 - There used to be a ZLIB_DLL macro in zlib 1.1.x, but now this symbol
     73   has a slightly different effect. To avoid compatibility problems, do
     74   not define it here.
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     77 Gilles Vollant
     78 info (a] winimage.com
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     80 Visual Studio 2013, 2015, and 2022 Projects from Sean Hunt
     81 seandhunt_7 (a] yahoo.com
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