Building for Win32. Extract the taglib sources. Add this in CMakeLists.txt: set(ZLIB_LIBRARY "c:/devel/libraries/nwin64/lib/zlib.lib") set(ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR "c:/devel/libraries/nwin64/include") set(BUILD_TESTING OFF) set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON) Or any place you have zlib.lib stored. Copy the shared libraries to ../lib/windows_/