Edit:

Before starting on the answer provided here, it appears that this may no longer be an issue going by @Thomas Klausner's answer below.

The following should get you a VS10 solution:

1. If you've not already done so, install CMake

2. Download and extract zlib to e.g. C:\devel. The download links are about halfway down the homepage. Currently this provides zlib version 1.2.7.

   • To work around this CMake bug which affects 64-bit Windows only, add

     if(CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P EQUAL 8 AND MSVC)
       set_target_properties(zlibstatic PROPERTIES STATIC_LIBRARY_FLAGS "/machine:x64")
     endif()
     

     to the end of C:\devel\zlib-1.2.7\CMakeLists.txt

3. Download and extract libzip to e.g. C:\devel

4. In a VS10 command prompt, cd C:\devel\zlib-1.2.7

5. mkdir build && cd build

6. cmake .. -G"Visual Studio 10" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="C:\devel\installed\zlib" This sets the install path to C:\devel\installed\zlib rather than the default C:\Program Files\zlib. For 64-bit Windows, use "Visual Studio 10 Win64" as the -G parameter.

7. msbuild /P:Configuration=Debug INSTALL.vcxproj

8. msbuild /P:Configuration=Release INSTALL.vcxproj

9. cd C:\devel\libzip-0.10.1

10. mkdir build && cd build

11. cmake .. -G"Visual Studio 10" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="C:\devel\installed\zlib" Set the path to wherever you installed zlib so that CMake can find zlib's include files and libs. Again, for 64-bit Windows, use "Visual Studio 10 Win64" as the -G parameter.

This should result in C:\devel\libzip-0.10.1\build\libzip.sln. It looks like there are a few POSIX-specific problems in the code, but they should hopefully be fairly easy to resolve (e.g. in zipconf.h #include <inttypes.h> needs replaced with #include <stdint.h>; there are some snprintf calls needing replaced e.g. with _snprintf).

The libzip developers have been made aware of this question but seem to be troubled with finding the right fix as neither of them is very familiar with Windows or MinGW: http://nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00559.html

I'm not familiar with either myself but was recently able to successfully compile libzip on Windows 7 (without MinGW) using this answer (also see my comment to that answer): https://stackoverflow.com/a/30245321/784669

Finally, since you might want to get things running right now, try to do the following:

• your call to swprintf in lib/zip_source_win32w.c, line 36, try to just delete the second argument to the function len as your compiler seems to assume an older version of swprintf
• put the following code as a temporary implementation for GetFileSizeEx (credit: https://sourceforge.net/p/tdm-gcc/bugs/250/):

_

bool GetFileSizeEx(HANDLE hFile, PLARGE_INTEGER fsize){
    LPDWORD tSize;
    DWORD t = fsize->HighPart;
    *tSize = t;
    int ret = GetFileSize(hFile, tSize);
    fsize->HighPart = *tSize;
    delete tSize;
    return ret;
}

• and here is another suggestion for GetFileSizeEx from stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28028376/784669 So the problem might be your Windows version. Indeed in winbase.h it says to only define GetFileSizeEx if _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0500. Maybe your Windows version is too old or you need to:

_

#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500

Good luck!

Take a look at vcpkg. It is a package manger for the Windows platform. It builds and installs many open source libraries for Windows. libzip is mentioned specifically as one of the ports.