Zlib for Windows
Zlib: general purpose data compression / decompression library
Version
1.2.3
Description
zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered -- that is, not covered by any patents -- lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system. The zlib data format is itself portable across platforms. Unlike the LZW compression method used in Unix compress(1) and in the GIF image format, the compression method currently used in zlib essentially never expands the data. (LZW can double or triple the file size in extreme cases.) zlib's memory footprint is also independent of the input data and can be reduced, if necessary, at some cost in compression.
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Description | Download | Size | Last change | Md5sum | ||||
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• Complete package, except sources | Setup | 407462 | 20 July 2005 | 66431e67d6b921d4eda7e88b56ee11fb | ||||
• Sources | Setup | 656804 | 20 July 2005 | d093777373e35a2be5b3e93751514d0f | ||||
• Binaries | Zip | 99777 | 20 July 2005 | 2092ba9954e65b7b27de6eab7cacb8fa | ||||
• Developer files | Zip | 71569 | 20 July 2005 | def79b244cd1e1eec8fd221bd8d2a361 | ||||
• Documentation | Zip | 51689 | 20 July 2005 | f082ee6eabb5e58ed1c4470170ac14ea | ||||
• Sources | Zip | 647392 | 20 July 2005 | ee984f37a8d19ced5bbe0e2f7d33db80 |
You can also download the files from the GnuWin32 files page.
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Installation and Usage
General Installation Instructions
Requirements
- MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP with msvcrt.dll. If msvcrt.dll is not in your Windows/System folder, get it from Microsoft or by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
- libgw32c (for developing with the Zlib library)