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
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+#### How to compile zstd with Visual Studio
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+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