zlib-rs: a safer zlib

This repository contains a Rust implementation of the zlib file format that is compatible with the zlib API.

This repository contains two public crates:

• zlib-rs, a Rust implementation based on zlib with a safe rust API. This API is under development and still unstable.
• libz-rs-sys, a zlib-compatible C API for usage in non-Rust applications.

How to use zlib-rs in your project

zlib-rs can be used in both Rust and C projects.

Rust projects

By far the easiest way to use zlib-rs is through the flate2 crate, by simply enabling the zlib-rs feature gate. This will enable the zlib-rs backend.

C projects

zlib-rs can be built as a shared object file for usage by C programs that dynamically link to zlib. Please see the example in libz-rs-sys-cdylib.

Acknowledgment

This project is heavily based on the zlib and zlib-ng projects.

About

zlib-rs is part of Trifecta Tech Foundation's Data compression initiative.

History

The initial development of zlib-rs was started and funded by the Internet Security Research Group as part of the Prossimo project.