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?

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?

To best use zlib's libraries in a C or C++ program, refer to zlib's example usage.