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# Building czmq on Windows

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## Microsoft Visual C/C++

This directory contains projects and solution to build czmq as a static library.

Traps for the unwary contributor:

* To compile the C99 constructs in the czmq codebase, you must use the /TP switch. You may not be able to build czmq with older versions of MSVC, we've tested VisualStudio 2008.

* MSVC is much stricter about type conversions than gcc. Particularly when casting from void * to another pointer, explicit casts are necessary. Also for signed/unsigned character usage.