# flate2
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A streaming compression/decompression library DEFLATE-based streams in Rust.
This crate by default uses the `miniz_oxide` crate, a port of `miniz.c` to pure
Rust. This crate also supports other [backends](#Backends), such as the widely
available zlib library or the high-performance zlib-ng library.
Supported formats:
* deflate
* zlib
* gzip
```toml
# Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
flate2 = "1.0"
```
## Compression
```rust
use std::io::prelude::*;
use flate2::Compression;
use flate2::write::ZlibEncoder;
fn main() {
let mut e = ZlibEncoder::new(Vec::new(), Compression::default());
e.write_all(b"foo");
e.write_all(b"bar");
let compressed_bytes = e.finish();
}
```
## Decompression
```rust,no_run
use std::io::prelude::*;
use flate2::read::GzDecoder;
fn main() {
let mut d = GzDecoder::new("...".as_bytes());
let mut s = String::new();
d.read_to_string(&mut s).unwrap();
println!("{}", s);
}
```
## Backends
The default `miniz_oxide` backend has the advantage of being pure Rust, but if
you're already using zlib with another C library, for example, you can use that
for Rust code as well:
```toml
[dependencies]
flate2 = { version = "1.0.17", features = ["zlib"], default-features = false }
```
This supports either the high-performance zlib-ng backend (in zlib-compat mode)
or the use of a shared system zlib library. To explicitly opt into the fast
zlib-ng backend, use:
```toml
[dependencies]
flate2 = { version = "1.0.17", features = ["zlib-ng-compat"], default-features = false }
```
Note that if any crate in your dependency graph explicitly requests stock zlib,
or uses libz-sys directly without `default-features = false`, you'll get stock
zlib rather than zlib-ng. See [the libz-sys
README](https://github.com/rust-lang/libz-sys/blob/main/README.md) for details.
For compatibility with previous versions of `flate2`, the cloudflare optimized
version of zlib is available, via the `cloudflare_zlib` feature. It's not as
fast as zlib-ng, but it's faster than stock zlib. It requires a x86-64 CPU with
SSE 4.2 or ARM64 with NEON & CRC. It does not support 32-bit CPUs at all and is
incompatible with mingw. For more information check the [crate
documentation](https://crates.io/crates/cloudflare-zlib-sys). Note that
`cloudflare_zlib` will cause breakage if any other crate in your crate graph
uses another version of zlib/libz.
For compatibility with previous versions of `flate2`, the C version of `miniz.c`
is still available, using the feature `miniz-sys`.
# License
This project is licensed under either of
* Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or
http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license,
shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.