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Matt_Geo
Matt_Geo

Reputation: 295

Installing zlib on windows

I use python to automate boring stuff I do daily (I'm not really a "programmer"). I've been building a script to compress my files to a zip folder. For that, I'm using zipfile library, but it only creates a ZIP file without compressing them. In order to do that, they recommend to install zlib module and use the ZIP_DEFLATED flag.

I'm having hard time to install the static library of zlib. I found that on git hub.

Assuming you have a functional zlib library installed in c:\lib\zlib (Download from https://zlib.net , use cmake to generate VS solution (with param -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\lib\zlib), then build the INSTALL project from that solution, using Release mode settings)

But I don't know how to proceed with these instructions. Some one could translate to a lay guy how to install this library on windows?

Thank in advance!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 13054

Answers (1)

Matt_Geo
Matt_Geo

Reputation: 295

The solution as said by @mechanical_meat is to use Python 3 instead, because Python 2.x is deprecated,

Note: just use the built-in zipfile, example of how to create compressed archive files here: stackoverflow.com/a/38550416/42346 –

Upvotes: 0

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