1 <h2> History and Links </h2> plus Installation and Contact Hints
4 <date>created 1.Jun.2000, last updated 25.Apr.2002 </date>
7 <h3> A Bit Of History </h3>
9 You'll find <a href="http://www.gzip.org">gzip</a> using the same compression
10 that was written by Jean-loup <a href="http://gailly.net">Gailly</a>
11 for the <a href="http://www.info-zip.org">Info-Zip</a> Group
12 whose <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Zip.html">Zip</a>
13 program is compatible with msdos PKZIP program from
14 <a href="http://www.pkware.com">PK Ware</a>. Then, in collaboration
15 with <a href="http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~madler">Mark Adler</a>
16 he wrote the <a href="http://www.gzip.org/zlib">zlib</a>
17 compression library which was later standardized in the
18 <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html">
20 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt">RFC 1950</a>
21 <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/rfc-zlib.html.Z">
23 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt">RFC 1951</a>
24 <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/rfc-deflate.html.Z">
25 deflate 1.3</a> and
26 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt">RFC 1952</a>
27 <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/rfc-gzip.html">
28 gzip 4.3</a>. The free algorithm can be found in lots of places
29 today including PPP packet compression and PNG picture compression.
31 <h3> Installation </h3>
34 The installation is from the source .tar.gz tarball does follow
35 the simple gnu style: type <tt>''configure && make install''</tt>
36 in the unpacked directory. This will actually perform the usual
37 sequence of <tt>''configure && make && make install''</tt>. The
38 use of <tt>''make rpm''</tt> will make rpms based on your system
39 setup, and using a decent mingw32 compiler (e.g. the crossgcc
40 from <a href="http://libsdl.org/Xmingw32">libsdl.org/Xmingw32</a>)
41 will allow you to create windows dlls using a gnu development
42 environment. MSVC and Borland support (Make-)files should be
43 easy to be derived from the <a href="Makefile.am">Makefile.am</a>
49 The library was developed by
50 <a href="mailto:guidod@gmx.de?subject=zziplib">
51 Guido Draheim </a> based on the library
52 <a href="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/08/02/933593367.html">
54 by <a href="mailto:too@iki.fi"> Tomi Ollila </a> (many thanks
55 for his support of the zziplib project). He has provided
56 a good deal of testing rounds and very helpful comments.
57 It may be assumed that this library supersedes
58 <a href="http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/zip08x.readme">
59 <tt>zip08x</tt></a>, and in April 2002, he
60 has even given up copyright restrictions coming from zip08x
61 and changed the <a href="http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/zip08x.readme">zip08x</a>
62 readme to point to <a href="http://zziplib.sf.net">zziplib</a>.
63 Anyone who wants to contribute in accessing zip-archives
64 with the zlib-library is hereby kindly invited to send us
65 comments and sourcecode.
71 The <a href="zziplib.html">zziplib library</a> must be
72 linked with the free <b><a href="http://www.gzip.org/zlib/">zlib</a></b>
73 <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib">[1]</a>
74 <a href="http://www.lifl.fr/PRIVATE/Manuals/gnulang/zlib">[2]</a>
75 <a href="http://pobox.com/~newt">[3]</a> package originally developed
76 by the <a href="http://www.info-zip.org">Info-Zip</a> Group
77 and now maintained at the <a href="http://www.gzip.org">GZip</a> Group.
78 As of late, the pkware appnote.txt has been revised into a whitepaper
80 <a href="http://www.pkware.com/products/enterprise/white_papers/appnote.html">
81 "APPNOTE.TXT - .ZIP File Format Specification"</a>.
82 Be also aware of other zzip like projects, e.g.
83 <a href="http://zipios.sourceforge.net">zipios++</a> that
84 mangles zip access into C++ iostream facilities.