Compression problems, zlib?

I've been googling for long time already, and I still dont know how to use zlib. Could someone just give exact instructions what I have to do to use it? (MS Visual C++ 2010 on Win7 32). Please not the DLL version. Thanks in advance!

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The website has a usage example.

I don't know it this will help but my coworker found this the other day when we were looking for a zip library. Looks pretty easy to use (there's an exemple at the end).

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/zlib.html

You still need to have the external library though.