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This is a fork of pigz that adds Windows support, courtesy of Krzysztof Kowalczyk.

To download binaries: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/pigz-for-windows.html

First, get premake and put somewhere in the %PATH%. I use premake 4.3

You can run scripts\build.bat (python required), which will auto-detect Visual Studio 2010 or 2012, build and run tests.

The result (pigz.exe and unpigz.exe) will be in rel directory.

Alternatively, do it manually:

For Visual Studio 2008:

• run premake4 vs2008 to generate Visual Studio 2008 solution
• open build\pigz.sln in Visual Studio and build

For Visual Studio 2010:

• run premake4 vs2010 to generate Visual Studio 2010 solution
• open build\pigz.sln in Visual Studio 2010 and build

For Visual Studio 2012:

• run premake4 vs2010 to generate Visual Studio 2012 solution
• open build\pigz.sln in Visual Studio 2012. You'll have to convert to VS 2012 format, but it should work

Pigz uses pthreads for threading. For easy porting, I used pthread-win32. I added the following at the top of pthread.h:

#define __CLEANUP_C
#define PTW32_STATIC_LIB

I used dirent.[c|h] from http://www.two-sdg.demon.co.uk/curbralan/code/dirent/dirent.html.

I wrote a simple win32/wincompat.h that aliases names of some Unix functions to their win32 equivalents.

I used premake for the build system.