Chris Miller
Programmer
I discovered git repositories that alleviate building Dynamic and static versions of zlib and libzip:
github.com
github.com
To be precise, these projects build from the get go with no problems in their VS2022 version (at least, I assume also in older VS versions). Very nice.
Now I thought it's easy enough to take libzip.lib and build a new DLL project using that and offering two simple functions a) ZipDir to zip all files of a directory (recursive with subdirectories) and and b) UnZip a zip file to a target directory. I fail to integrate the static lib into a new DLL project. The problem seems to me in the structure of header files that's too complex. I first tried to link to the libzip project folders and then tried to stuff all header files of the libzip project into one new directory of my solution together with the lib and it gives less errors but still lists over hundred errors starting with "cannot open zipcomf.h" within zip.h and cascading in lots of undefined identifiers of classes/structs etc.
I mainly followed the steps of https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/c...ects?view=msvc-170#consuming-static-libraries for sttic libraries.
Now I also tried to simply include zlib-static and llibzip-static projects into my new project but still the same overall mess with include file processing.
Would anybody care to look into this? Specifically for these static libs, not just generally?
GitHub - kiyolee/zlib-win-build: zlib Windows build with Visual Studio.
zlib Windows build with Visual Studio. Contribute to kiyolee/zlib-win-build development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
GitHub - kiyolee/libzip-win-build: libzip Windows build with Visual Studio.
libzip Windows build with Visual Studio. Contribute to kiyolee/libzip-win-build development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
To be precise, these projects build from the get go with no problems in their VS2022 version (at least, I assume also in older VS versions). Very nice.
Now I thought it's easy enough to take libzip.lib and build a new DLL project using that and offering two simple functions a) ZipDir to zip all files of a directory (recursive with subdirectories) and and b) UnZip a zip file to a target directory. I fail to integrate the static lib into a new DLL project. The problem seems to me in the structure of header files that's too complex. I first tried to link to the libzip project folders and then tried to stuff all header files of the libzip project into one new directory of my solution together with the lib and it gives less errors but still lists over hundred errors starting with "cannot open zipcomf.h" within zip.h and cascading in lots of undefined identifiers of classes/structs etc.
I mainly followed the steps of https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/c...ects?view=msvc-170#consuming-static-libraries for sttic libraries.
Now I also tried to simply include zlib-static and llibzip-static projects into my new project but still the same overall mess with include file processing.
Would anybody care to look into this? Specifically for these static libs, not just generally?
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