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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

How to build

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

Building via script

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.

Building manually

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

How the port was made

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.