Projects for various integrated development environments (IDE) ============================================================== #### Included projects The following projects are included with the zstd distribution: - `cmake` - CMake project contributed by Artyom Dymchenko - `VS2005` - Visual Studio 2005 project - `VS2008` - Visual Studio 2008 project - `VS2010` - Visual Studio 2010 project (which also works well with Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2015) - `VS_scripts` - command line scripts prepared for Visual Studio compilation without IDE #### How to compile zstd with Visual Studio 1. Install Visual Studio e.g. VS 2015 Community Edition (it's free). 2. Download the latest version of zstd from https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases 3. Decompress ZIP archive. 4. Go to decompressed directory then to `projects` then `VS2010` and open `zstd.sln` 5. Visual Studio will ask about converting VS2010 project to VS2015 and you should agree. 6. Change `Debug` to `Release` and if you have 64-bit Windows change also `Win32` to `x64`. 7. Press F7 on keyboard or select `BUILD` from the menu bar and choose `Build Solution`. 8. If compilation will be fine a compiled executable will be in `projects\VS2010\bin\x64\Release\zstd.exe` #### Projects available within zstd.sln The Visual Studio solution file `visual\VS2010\zstd.sln` contains many projects that will be compiled to the `visual\VS2010\bin\$(Platform)_$(Configuration)` directory. For example `zstd` set to `x64` and `Release` will be compiled to `visual\VS2010\bin\x64_Release\zstd.exe`. The solution file contains the following projects: - `zstd` : Command Line Utility, supporting gzip-like arguments - `datagen` : Synthetic and parametrable data generator, for tests - `fullbench` : Precisely measure speed for each zstd inner functions - `fuzzer` : Test tool, to check zstd integrity on target platform - `libzstd` : A static ZSTD library compiled to `libzstd_static.lib` - `libzstd-dll` : A dynamic ZSTD library (DLL) compiled to `libzstd.dll` with the import library `libzstd.lib` - `fullbench-dll` : The fullbench program compiled with the import library; the executable requires ZSTD DLL #### Using ZSTD DLL with Microsoft Visual C++ project The header file `lib\zstd.h` and the import library `visual\VS2010\bin\$(Platform)_$(Configuration)\libzstd.lib` are required to compile a project using Visual C++. 1. The path to header files should be added to `Additional Include Directories` that can be found in Project Properties of Visual Studio IDE in the `C/C++` Property Pages on the `General` page. 2. The import library has to be added to `Additional Dependencies` that can be found in Project Properties in the `Linker` Property Pages on the `Input` page. If one will provide only the name `libzstd.lib` without a full path to the library then the directory has to be added to `Linker\General\Additional Library Directories`. The compiled executable will require ZSTD DLL which is available at `visual\VS2010\bin\$(Platform)_$(Configuration)\libzstd.dll`.