[boost] [iostreams][gzip][zlib] zlib vs gzip, and linking against external libraries

Subject: [boost] [iostreams][gzip][zlib] zlib vs gzip, and linking against external libraries
From: Aaron Levy (aaron.levy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-17 15:07:15

What is the difference in functionality between gzip and zlib compression?

I built Boost iostreams library on Linux after exporting ZLIB_SOURCE and BZIP2_SOURCE environment variables. However when I build a sample program using gzip / bzip2 with IOStreams, I do not need to link to libzlib or libbz2. Is the zlib / bz2 code built into libboost_iostreams in this case?

For reference, this is the command line I used to build the iostreams library.

./b2 --with-iostreams --build-dir=../build threading=multi variant=release link=shared runtime-link=shared

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Aaron Levy
aaron.levy_at_[hidden]