Re: lzlib usage

[Brian Maher <maherb@...>]

FYI, I've changed the default to use inflateInit2(), I've also
switched it to use CMake.

Cheers,
-Brian

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Brian Maher <maherb@brimworks.com> wrote:
> FYI, if you want a streaming interface to zlib, you can try this out:
>
>  http://github.com/brimworks/lua-zlib
>
> It is a small bit of code that I wrote for fun.  Note that it
> currently hard-codes deflateInit() and inflateInit(), but after more
> experience of using zlib, I now know that if you want gzip headers to
> be properly read, you need to use inflateInit2() and pass in MAX_WBITS
> + 32 magic number for the window size :-(.  I'll see about fixing
> this.
>
> I should also add options so that deflateInit2() parameters may be
> specified (give the library more flexibility).
>
> Thanks,
> -Brian
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Phoenix Sol <phoenix@burninglabs.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:16 PM, GrayFace <sergroj@mail.ru> wrote:
>>>
>>> ZLib itself does support decompressing by chunks. You can read any number
>>> of bytes from the decompression stream.
>>
>> Oh yeah. Duh, I've piped compressed data through gzip -d before; same thing,
>> right?
>> ...time passes...
>> Ha. Got it working. Thanks!!
>
>
>
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