Change Location of zcompdump Files

Question

Is it possible to change the location of .zcompdump and .zhistory files generated by ZSH?
They are polluting my Home Directory.
One possible solution I found was changing the value of $ZDOTDIR to $HOME/.config/zsh. I did the following, but it does not seem to work (temp files are still created in the home directory).

$ cat ~/.zshenv
ZDOTDIR=$HOME/.zsh
. $ZDOTDIR/.zshenv

Answer 1

.zcompdump files are produced to speed up the running of compinit, Which initializes the shell completion in zsh. You could specify an explicit dump file by compinit -d <dumpfile> in your .zshrc to change the location where compdump are stored.

Change the value for HISTFILE to set different location to store you zsh command history.