diff --git a/contrib/zlib/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/zlib/CMakeLists.txt
index 5f1368adb..a13b7725e 100644
--- a/contrib/zlib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/contrib/zlib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -130,12 +130,6 @@ set(ZLIB_SRCS
     zutil.c
 )
 
-if(NOT MINGW)
-    set(ZLIB_DLL_SRCS
-        win32/zlib1.rc # If present will override custom build rule below.
-    )
-endif()
-
 if(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC)
     if(ASM686)
         set(ZLIB_ASMS contrib/asm686/match.S)
@@ -174,26 +168,7 @@ file(READ ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/zlib.h _zlib_h_contents)
 string(REGEX REPLACE ".*#define[ \t]+ZLIB_VERSION[ \t]+\"([-0-9A-Za-z.]+)\".*"
     "\\1" ZLIB_FULL_VERSION ${_zlib_h_contents})
 
-if(MINGW)
-    # This gets us DLL resource information when compiling on MinGW.
-    if(NOT CMAKE_RC_COMPILER)
-        set(CMAKE_RC_COMPILER windres.exe)
-    endif()
-
-    add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/zlib1rc.obj
-                       COMMAND ${CMAKE_RC_COMPILER}
-                            -D GCC_WINDRES
-                            -I ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
-                            -I ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
-                            -o ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/zlib1rc.obj
-                            -i ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/win32/zlib1.rc)
-    set(ZLIB_DLL_SRCS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/zlib1rc.obj)
-endif(MINGW)
-
-add_library(zlib SHARED ${ZLIB_SRCS} ${ZLIB_ASMS} ${ZLIB_DLL_SRCS} ${ZLIB_PUBLIC_HDRS} ${ZLIB_PRIVATE_HDRS})
 add_library(zlibstatic STATIC ${ZLIB_SRCS} ${ZLIB_ASMS} ${ZLIB_PUBLIC_HDRS} ${ZLIB_PRIVATE_HDRS})
-set_target_properties(zlib PROPERTIES DEFINE_SYMBOL ZLIB_DLL)
-set_target_properties(zlib PROPERTIES SOVERSION 1)
 
 INSTALL( TARGETS zlibstatic
          LIBRARY DESTINATION ${ASSIMP_LIB_INSTALL_DIR}