diff -uNr zlib-1.2.11/LICENSE.build zlib-1.2.11.meson/LICENSE.build
--- zlib-1.2.11/LICENSE.build	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ zlib-1.2.11.meson/LICENSE.build	2018-05-29 15:10:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Copyright (c) 2018 The Meson development team
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
diff -uNr zlib-1.2.11/meson.build zlib-1.2.11.meson/meson.build
--- zlib-1.2.11/meson.build	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ zlib-1.2.11.meson/meson.build	2018-06-20 18:09:04.498957829 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+project('zlib', 'c', version : '1.2.11', license : 'zlib')
+
+cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
+
+link_args = []
+compile_args = []
+if cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+  add_project_arguments('-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE',
+    '-D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE', language : 'c')
+else
+  # Don't spam consumers of this wrap with these warnings
+  compile_args += cc.get_supported_arguments(['-Wno-implicit-fallthrough',
+                                              '-Wno-implicit-function-declaration'])
+  if cc.get_id() == 'gcc' and host_machine.system() != 'windows'
+    vflag = '-Wl,--version-script,@0@/zlib.map'.format(meson.current_source_dir())
+    link_args += [vflag]
+  endif
+endif
+
+src = files([
+  'adler32.c',
+  'crc32.c',
+  'deflate.c',
+  'infback.c',
+  'inffast.c',
+  'inflate.c',
+  'inftrees.c',
+  'trees.c',
+  'zutil.c',
+  'compress.c',
+  'uncompr.c',
+  'gzclose.c',
+  'gzlib.c',
+  'gzread.c',
+  'gzwrite.c'])
+
+headers = files(['zconf.h', 'zlib.h'])
+
+if host_machine.system() == 'windows'
+  win = import('windows')
+  win_args = []
+  if cc.get_id() != 'msvc'
+    win_args += '-DGCC_WINDRES'
+  endif
+  src += win.compile_resources('win32/zlib1.rc', args : win_args)
+endif
+
+if get_option('solo')
+  compile_args += ['-DZ_SOLO']
+endif
+
+zlib = library('z', src,
+  c_args : compile_args,
+  link_args : link_args,
+  vs_module_defs : 'win32/zlib.def',
+  install : true)
+
+incdir = include_directories('.')
+
+zlib_dep = declare_dependency(
+  link_with : zlib,
+  include_directories : incdir)
+
+install_headers(headers)
+
+pkg = import('pkgconfig')
+
+pkg.generate(name: 'zlib',
+             description: 'zlib compression library',
+             version: '1.2.11',
+             libraries: zlib)
diff -uNr zlib-1.2.11/meson_options.txt zlib-1.2.11.meson/meson_options.txt
--- zlib-1.2.11/meson_options.txt	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ zlib-1.2.11.meson/meson_options.txt	2018-05-29 15:10:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+option('solo', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'Build a minimal zlib without file I/O API')