Also build static library libmatio.lib (MSVC)

* It also assumes that the static libraries of HDF5 (and zlib) are available.
* As reported by #89

README

@@ -148,13 +148,16 @@ Table of Contents
         2.2.3 Visual Studio
             Visual Studio solutions are provided as visual_studio/matio_vs2008.sln
             for VS2008 and as visual_studio/matio.sln for VS2010 (and newer).
-            The solutions are set up to build a DLL of the matio library
-            (libmatio.dll) and matdump tool and assume HDF5 is available in the
-            directory specified by the HDF5_DIR environment variable. It is
-            assumed that the shared libraries of HDF5 (and zlib) are available.
-            If the static libraries of HDF5 (and zlib) are installed/built the
-            macro 'H5_BUILT_AS_STATIC_LIB' needs to be defined (instead of
-            'H5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB').
+            The Debug and Release configurations of both solutions are set up to
+            build a DLL of the matio library (libmatio.dll) and the matdump tool
+            and assume HDF5 is available in the directory specified by the
+            HDF5_DIR environment variable. It is assumed that the shared libraries
+            of HDF5 (and zlib) are available. If the static libraries of HDF5 (and
+            zlib) are installed/built the macro 'H5_BUILT_AS_STATIC_LIB' needs to
+            be defined (instead of 'H5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB'). Furthermore, the
+            Release Lib configuration of the VS2010 solution is set up to build a
+            static LIB of the matio library (libmatio.lib) and assumes that the
+            static libraries of HDF5 (and zlib) are installed/built.
 
         2.2.4 Testsuite
             A testsuite is available when building with the GNU autotools. To

README.md

@@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ This option sets the default MAT file version (4,5,7.3) that will be used when w
 This option specifies a suffix to apply to library directories when installing and looking for dependent libraries (i.e. HDF5 and zlib). For example, some multi-arch Linux distributions install 64-bit libraries into lib64 and 32-bit libraries into lib.
 
 #### 2.2.3 Visual Studio
-Visual Studio solutions are provided as [matio_vs2008.sln](visual_studio/matio_vs2008.sln) for VS2008 and as [matio.sln](visual_studio/matio.sln) for VS2010 (and newer). The solutions are set up to build a DLL of the matio library (libmatio.dll) and matdump tool and assume HDF5 is available in the directory specified by the HDF5_DIR environment variable. It is assumed that the **shared** libraries of HDF5 (and zlib) are available. If the **static** libraries of HDF5 (and zlib) are installed/built the macro `H5_BUILT_AS_STATIC_LIB` needs to be defined (instead of `H5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB`).
+Visual Studio solutions are provided as [matio_vs2008.sln](visual_studio/matio_vs2008.sln) for VS2008 and as [matio.sln](visual_studio/matio.sln) for VS2010 (and newer). The Debug and Release configurations of both solutions are set up to build a DLL of the matio library (libmatio.dll) and the matdump tool and assume HDF5 is available in the directory specified by the HDF5_DIR environment variable. It is assumed that the **shared** libraries of HDF5 (and zlib) are available. If the **static** libraries of HDF5 (and zlib) are installed/built the macro `H5_BUILT_AS_STATIC_LIB` needs to be defined (instead of `H5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB`). Furthermore, the Release Lib configuration of the VS2010 solution is set up to build a static LIB of the matio library (libmatio.lib) and assumes that the **static** libraries of HDF5 (and zlib) are installed/built.
 
 * The VS2008 solution was tested with Visual Studio 2008 and the [HDF5 1.8.12 Visual Studio pre-built Windows binaries](https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.8/hdf5-1.8.12/bin/windows/) (vs9shared) including zlib.
 * The VS2010 solution was tested with Visual Studio 2010 and the [HDF5 1.8.13 Visual Studio pre-built Windows binaries](https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.8/hdf5-1.8.13/bin/windows/) (VS2010-shared) including zlib.
+* The VS2010 solution was tested with Visual Studio 2010 and the [HDF5 1.8.13 Visual Studio pre-built Windows binaries](https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.8/hdf5-1.8.13/bin/windows/) (VS2010-static) including zlib.
 * The updated VS2010 solution was tested with Visual Studio 2015 and the [HDF5 1.8.16 Visual Studio pre-built Windows binaries](https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.8/hdf5-1.8.16/bin/windows/extra/) (vs2015-shared) including zlib.
 
 #### 2.2.4 Testsuite

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