2.9 KiB
2.9 KiB
Projects for various integrated development environments (IDE)
Included projects
The following projects are included with the lz4 distribution:
cmake
- CMake projectVS2010
- Visual Studio 2010 project (which also works well with Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2015)VS2017
- Visual Studio 2017 project
How to compile lz4 with Visual Studio
- Install Visual Studio e.g. VS 2015 Community Edition (it's free).
- Download the latest version of lz4 from https://github.com/lz4/lz4/releases
- Decompress ZIP archive.
- Go to decompressed directory then to
build
thenVS2010
and openlz4.sln
- Visual Studio will ask about converting VS2010 project to VS2015 and you should agree.
- Change
Debug
toRelease
and if you have 64-bit Windows change alsoWin32
tox64
. - Press F7 on keyboard or select
BUILD
from the menu bar and chooseBuild Solution
. - If compilation will be fine a compiled executable will be in
build\VS2010\bin\x64_Release\lz4.exe
Projects available within lz4.sln
The Visual Studio solution file lz4.sln
contains many projects that will be compiled to the
build\VS2010\bin\$(Platform)_$(Configuration)
directory. For example lz4
set to x64
and
Release
will be compiled to build\VS2010\bin\x64_Release\lz4.exe
. The solution file contains the
following projects:
lz4
: Command Line Utility, supporting gzip-like argumentsdatagen
: Synthetic and parametrable data generator, for testsframetest
: Test tool that checks lz4frame integrity on target platformfullbench
: Precisely measure speed for each lz4 inner functionsfuzzer
: Test tool, to check lz4 integrity on target platformliblz4
: A static LZ4 library compiled toliblz4_static.lib
liblz4-dll
: A dynamic LZ4 library (DLL) compiled toliblz4.dll
with the import libraryliblz4.lib
fullbench-dll
: The fullbench program compiled with the import library; the executable requires LZ4 DLL
Using LZ4 DLL with Microsoft Visual C++ project
The header files lib\lz4.h
, lib\lz4hc.h
, lib\lz4frame.h
and the import library
build\VS2010\bin\$(Platform)_$(Configuration)\liblz4.lib
are required to
compile a project using Visual C++.
- The path to header files should be added to
Additional Include Directories
that can be found in Project Properties of Visual Studio IDE in theC/C++
Property Pages on theGeneral
page. - The import library has to be added to
Additional Dependencies
that can be found in Project Properties in theLinker
Property Pages on theInput
page. If one will provide only the nameliblz4.lib
without a full path to the library then the directory has to be added toLinker\General\Additional Library Directories
.
The compiled executable will require LZ4 DLL which is available at
build\VS2010\bin\$(Platform)_$(Configuration)\liblz4.dll
.