madler / zlib
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A general-purpose, thread-safe C library for lossless data compression in the deflate, zlib, and gzip formats.
Why you might care
It is the de facto standard deflate implementation, used widely as a dependency by other software and language runtimes, and it is documented via zlib.h and the RFCs 1950-1952. Choose it when you need interoperable gzip/zlib streams or want to build on a long-established, portable C codebase.
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LanguageC
License—
Created2011-09-10 (15y ago)
Last push1mo ago
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Links
- GitHub: github.com/madler/zlib
- Homepage: http://zlib.net/
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