HowTo Build Brotli Windows

build_brotli_win.md

HowTo build / make latest brotli Windows 11 binary

I couldn't find latest brotli binary for Win64 / x64, so here is how to compile it on Windows, for Windows: https://github.com/google/brotli

Will use this repo later: https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg

Prerequisites

Install PowerShell Core:

https://aka.ms/powershell-release?tag=stable

Install Git for Windows:

https://gitforwindows.org

Install Visual Studio (free Community edition is ok):

http://visualstudio.net

Choose Workloads:

• Desktop Dev with C++ (Optionals: add Win11SDK & also all with C++ in title, except those older than current MSVC)
• Linux Dev with C++

Brotli

Run CMD as Admin:

C:
cd C:\
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
.\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
.\vcpkg\vcpkg integrate install
.\vcpkg\vcpkg install brotli

Done. Find it here:

C:\vcpkg\packages\brotli_x86-windows\tools\brotli\brotli.exe

latest release now has windows binaries, but only build method that worked on linux is cmake:

# for Debian Testing, assuming WSL2 root container, running below as root

apt update
apt -y install cmake wget

wget https://github.com/google/brotli/archive/refs/tags/v1.1.0.tar.gz

gunzip v1.1.0.tar.gz
tar xvf v1.1.0.tar
cd brotli-1.1.0

mkdir out && cd out
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./installed ..
cmake --build . --config Release --target install

./brotli -V

# done