https://github.com/kugelrund/dzip/commit/f1b1c569c4942a3e9ce3d092fcd6addbecc53a4d.patchFrom: kugelrund <6236137+kugelrund@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 22:55:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Suggest more modern CMake workflow

--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1.0)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
 project(dzip)
 
-set(CMAKE_C_STANDARD 11)
-set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
-if(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT)
-    set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/install
-        CACHE PATH "Default installation directory." FORCE)
-endif()
-
 add_library(dzip_endian INTERFACE)
 if(CMAKE_C_BYTE_ORDER STREQUAL "BIG_ENDIAN")
     target_compile_definitions(dzip_endian INTERFACE DZIP_BIG_ENDIAN)
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,19 +18,32 @@ For other systems, please see section Compilation.
 If no system zlib is available, make sure to clone the repository using `--recurse-submodules` to clone the required zlib sources too.
 
 [CMake](https://cmake.org/) may be used to build Dzip.
-For example, on unix systems, you may want to setup the build files using
+For example, from the top-level directory the commands
 
 ```bash
-mkdir build
-cd build
-cmake ..
+cmake -B ./build -S . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
+cmake --build ./build
+cmake --install ./build --prefix ./install
 ```
 
-followed by running `make` to compile, assuming you are using CMake with Makefiles.
+may be run to get the compiled dzip executable in the install subdirectory.
 
 Note that compilation of the GUI is only supported on Windows with Visual Studio for now.
-A simple way to generate the necessary Visual Studio projects is to use the `cmake-gui` on Windows.
-Make sure to target Win32, other platforms (including x64) are not supported for now.
+Make sure to target Win32, other architectures (including x64) are not supported for now.
+The necessary Visual Studio projects may for example be generated with:
+
+```bash
+cmake -B ./build -S . -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A Win32 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="./install"
+```
+
+You can then either open the generated Visual Studio solution and work from there, or for example run
+
+```bash
+cmake --build ./build --config Release
+cmake --install ./build
+```
+
+from the command line.
 
 ## Usage