The installation is from the source .tar.gz tarball does follow the simple gnu style: type ''configure && make install'' in the unpacked directory. This will actually perform the usual sequence of ''configure && make && make install''. The use of ''make rpm'' will make rpms based on your system setup, and using a decent mingw32 compiler (e.g. the crossgcc from libsdl.org/Xmingw32) will allow you to create windows dlls using a gnu development environment. MSVC and Borland support (Make-)files should be easy to be derived from the Makefile.am
The library was developed by Guido Draheim based on the library zip08x by Tomi Ollila (many thanks for his support of the zziplib project). He has provided a good deal of testing rounds and very helpful comments. It may be assumed that this library supersedes zip08x, and in April 2002, he has even given up copyright restrictions coming from zip08x and changed the zip08x readme to point to zziplib. Anyone who wants to contribute in accessing zip-archives with the zlib-library is hereby kindly invited to send us comments and sourcecode.
The zziplib library must be linked with the free zlib [1] [2] [3] package originally developed by the Info-Zip Group and now maintained at the GZip Group. Be also aware of other zzip like projects, e.g. zipios++ that mangles zip access into C++ iostream facilities.