Building zlib 1.2.5 on windows

Posted by Administrator on March 26, 2011 Leave a comment (1) Go to comments

To build zlib on windows I did the following:

Opened up a windows cmd prompt and ran vsvars32.bat from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools (You may need to change this depending on which version of Visual Studio you may have)
Ran nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc. At this point I ran into a LNK2001 error with _inflate_fast being unresolved
Editted Makefile.msc to add the inffast.obj to the OBJS target per the hint given at here Chinese instructions to build zlib on Windows
Reran nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc. This time it worked.

1 Comments.

Rich March 28, 2011 at 6:50 am

That worked perfectly – thanks for that. It’s been a while since I’ve worked with makefiles!!