libzip uses cmake to build.

For running the tests, you need to have perl.

You'll need zlib (at least version 1.1.2). It comes with most operating systems.

For supporting bzip2-compressed zip archives, you need bzip2.

The basic usage is

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make test
make install

Some useful parameters you can pass to cmake with -Dparameter=value:

• BUILD_SHARED_LIBS: set to ON or OFF to enable/disable building of shared libraries, defaults to ON
• CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: for setting the installation path

You can get verbose build output with by passing VERBOSE=1 to make.

You can also check the cmake FAQ.