README.win32

Native win32 build instructions using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 (MSVC).

Requirements:
 * zlib is installed automatically from NuGet,
   but probably requires the NuGet VS extension.
 * OpenSSL-win32 must be installed in C:\OpenSSL-win32.
   Download and install the latest v1.0.2 non-light package from:
   https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
   (This would be using NuGet too but the current
    OpenSSL packages are outdated and with broken
	dependencies, so no luck)
 * lz4 is installed automatically from NuGet.
   xxhash.[ch] from lz4 are used instead of the ones provided by librdkafka.


The Visual Studio solution file for librdkafka resides in win32/librdkafka.sln

Artifacts:
 - C library
 - C++ library
 - rdkafka_example
 - tests

 Missing:
  - remaining tools (rdkafka_performance, etc)
  - SASL support (no official Cyrus libsasl2 DLLs available)

If you build librdkafka with an external tool (ie CMake) you can get rid of the 
__declspec(dllexport) / __declspec(dllimport) decorations by adding a define
-DLIBRDKAFKA_STATICLIB to your CFLAGS