FindZLIB — CMake 3.25.2 Documentation

# FindZLIB

Find the native ZLIB includes and library.

## IMPORTED Targets

New in version 3.1.

This module defines `IMPORTED` target `ZLIB::ZLIB`, if ZLIB has been found.

## Result Variables

This module defines the following variables:

    ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIRS   - where to find zlib.h, etc.
    ZLIB_LIBRARIES      - List of libraries when using zlib.
    ZLIB_FOUND          - True if zlib found.

    ZLIB_VERSION_STRING - The version of zlib found (x.y.z)
    ZLIB_VERSION_MAJOR  - The major version of zlib
    ZLIB_VERSION_MINOR  - The minor version of zlib
    ZLIB_VERSION_PATCH  - The patch version of zlib
    ZLIB_VERSION_TWEAK  - The tweak version of zlib

New in version 3.4: Debug and Release variants are found separately.

## Backward Compatibility

The following variable are provided for backward compatibility

    ZLIB_MAJOR_VERSION  - The major version of zlib
    ZLIB_MINOR_VERSION  - The minor version of zlib
    ZLIB_PATCH_VERSION  - The patch version of zlib

## Hints

A user may set `ZLIB_ROOT` to a zlib installation root to tell this module where to look.

New in version 3.24: Set `ZLIB_USE_STATIC_LIBS` to `ON` to look for static libraries. Default is `OFF`.