Unfortunately after blundering round in the dark I've no idea how I build the zlib library and then how to include it in my project. Unfortunately not being an expert in this area, the 'instructions' that come with zlib are as clear as mud to me.

Once I've downloaded zlib123.zip what is my next step ? Am I supposed to build a library from the source, and if so can anyone give me some pointers how I go about this. I am using Borland's...

Well I knew I'd done something daft. I'm so used to to just clicking things on menus to build a project. Thanks for your comment....

Hello,

First of all I'm a relatively inexperienced C++ programmer so this may seem a simple question to answer.

I'm trying to use zlib from www.zlib.net to decompress some data. However I run into an error when I try to compile the program :

E2015 Ambiguity between 'Byte' and 'System::Byte'

And the offending code (within zconf.h) is :

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