Hello,
I'm trying to create a Windows x64 MSVC .exe application that statically links minizip-ng and zlib-ng.
I generated a *.vcxproj file using the following commands:

rmdir /s /q third_party
rmdir /s /q build
cmake -S . -B build --fresh -DMZ_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DMZ_COMPRESS_ONLY=ON -DMZ_BZIP2=OFF -DMZ_LZMA=OFF -DMZ_ZSTD=OFF -DMZ_PKCRYPT=OFF -DMZ_WZAES=OFF -Wno-dev

Then, when I try to build the ZERO_CHECK, zlibstatic, and minizip libraries in Visual Studio 2022, I get a LINK error.
The minizip library project's References list includes zlib, not zlibstatic.
As a simple fix, I manually removed the reference to zlib and added a reference to zlibstatic, and the build was successful.
After examining minizip-ng's CMakeLists.txt, I discovered that if ZLIB_COMPAT is set to OFF in the following line:

        # Have to add zlib to install targets
        if(ZLIB_COMPAT AND (NOT DEFINED BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OR NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS))
            list(APPEND MINIZIP_DEP zlibstatic)
        else()
            list(APPEND MINIZIP_DEP zlib)
        endif()

If ZLIB_COMPAT is set to OFF, the shared library name will be used even if BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is undefined.
The git log shows a June 2, 2024, fix with the commit message 'Fixed zlib-ng build error about installing zlibstatic alias.' (db940ff). This suggests that the if statement's reference to the ZLIB_COMPAT variable for static link creation is a meaningful insertion.

I also discovered that ZLIB_COMPAT here is initialized to OFF by an option in the zlib-ng CMakeLists.txt, which is called by the immediately preceding add_subdirectory(${ZLIB_SOURCE_DIR} ${ZLIB_BINARY_DIR} EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL) .
I'm not sure whether this code is an intentional mechanism that cleverly uses CMake options and scopes.
I wanted to separate the static/shared library building from the ZLIB_COMPAT setting, so I temporarily swapped the order of the if() statements and removed ZLIB_COMPAT from them, and it appears to build as expected.

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 213d03a..16fa287 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -207,19 +207,22 @@ if(MZ_ZLIB)
         list(APPEND MINIZIP_INC ${ZLIB_SOURCE_DIR})
         list(APPEND MINIZIP_INC ${ZLIB_BINARY_DIR})

-        # Have to add zlib to install targets
-        if(ZLIB_COMPAT AND (NOT DEFINED BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OR NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS))
-            list(APPEND MINIZIP_DEP zlibstatic)
-        else()
-            list(APPEND MINIZIP_DEP zlib)
-        endif()
-
         if(EXISTS "${ZLIB_BINARY_DIR}/zlib-ng.h")
             message(STATUS "ZLIB repository detected as ZLIBNG")
             set(ZLIB_COMPAT OFF)
         else()
             set(ZLIB_COMPAT ON)
         endif()
+
+        # Have to add zlib to install targets
+        if(NOT DEFINED BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OR NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
+            list(APPEND MINIZIP_DEP zlibstatic)
+        else()
+            list(APPEND MINIZIP_DEP zlib)
+        endif()
+
     else()
         message(STATUS "ZLIB library not found")

Will this approach cause problems in other environments?