5.7. zlib (Optional)

 

zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered — that is, not covered by any patents — lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system.

 
 -- The zlib web site https://www.zlib.net/

Unix

This library is almost certain to be installed on your system. If it isn’t or you don’t want to use the default library you can download it from https://www.zlib.net/.

Windows

zlib is part of our vcpkg-export bundles and is available at https://dev-libs.wireshark.org/windows/packages/.