Zlib

zlib is a general purpose compression library. It provides in-memory compression and decompression functions, including integrity checks of the uncompressed data. This library allows compressing and decompressing from its own zlib format and from gzip format.

Contents 1 Features 2 Platforms 3 Tutorials and source 4 Related Weblinks

Features

• Compression in a single step if the buffers are large enough
• Compression/decompression of data in the system memory using zlib format
• Compression/decompression of files using gzip format
• Support of Adler32 and CRC32 check functions

Platforms

Virtually any computer hardware and operating system.

Binaries are available for:

• Linux
• HP-UX
• SGI
• Solaris
• Digital Unix
• SCO Open Server
• BeOS
• Mac OS X
• Mac OS
• OS/2
• Palm Pilot
• Newton OS
• Windows
• RIM BlackBerry

Tutorials and source

zlib usage example

Related Weblinks

zlib website