Zlib File Compression in C: Compress & Decompress on Linux
Now that you've got compress() working, let's work with real files. In this episode, we'll build a complete file compression pipeline in C — read a file from disk, compress it with zlib, save it, and verify the round-trip.
🔧 What you'll learn:
• The four-stage compression pipeline: read → compress → write → verify
• Reading files into memory with fopen/fread/fseek
• Writing compressed data to .zlib files
• Decompressing and verifying data integrity with memcmp()
💾 Full source code: https://github.com/ChaseKnowlden/zlib...
⏱ Timestamps:
0:00 — Intro
0:51 — Key points of the video
2:40 — Analogy
4:21 — Live Coding
18:07 — Compiling and Testing the program
20:00 — Outro
📂 Full Zlib Series Playlist: • How to use the Zlib Library on Linux
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