zlib
What is zlib?
What is zlib?
zlib is "a massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library" (source). In short, it provides easy, verbose, and cooperative compression libraries for C and C++.
How is zlib loaded?
How is zlib loaded?
The below can be used to view all of the installations of zlib on a particular system, where this example uses Coeus.
$ module avail |& grep "zlib"
Utils/zlib/1.2.11/gcc-6.3.0
Utils/zlib/1.2.11/intel
How is zlib used?
How is zlib used?
To best use zlib's libraries in a C or C++ program, refer to zlib's example usage.