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)
• build - 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/Cyan4973/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