Gzip In-Memory Compression

Question

Quick and simple question.

There are examples online about achieving in-memory gzip compression with zlib (C++) WITHOUT external libraries (like boost or such)?

I just need to compress and decompress a block of data without much options. (it must be gzip as its the same format used by another mine C# program (the data is to be shared))

Tried to search to no avail... Thanks!

Answer 1

You use an external library called zlib. You could statically link against this library if you did not want to bundle the DLL with your program.

zlib works happily with in-memory buffers.

You do not require boost.