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XXH_STATIC_LINKING_ONLY protection macro is intended to be triggered just before the include. The main idea is to keep this setting local : user module shall explicitly understand and accept the static linking restriction which becomes transparent when triggering the macro at project level. Global definition also triggers redefinition warnings for user modules which do locally define the macro. This new version compiles lib and cli without warning when the macro is set globally. That's not a scenario to be recommended, since it trades a local effect for a global one, but it was easy enough to provide from zstd side.
Zstandard library files
The lib directory contains several directories. Depending on target use case, it's enough to include only files from relevant directories.
API
Zstandard's stable API is exposed within zstd.h,
at the root of lib directory.
Advanced API
Some additional API may be useful if you're looking into advanced features :
- common/error_public.h : transforms
size_tfunction results into anenum, for precise error handling. - ZSTD_STATIC_LINKING_ONLY : if you define this macro before including
zstd.h, it will give access to advanced and experimental API. These APIs shall never be used with dynamic library ! They are not "stable", their definition may change in the future. Only static linking is allowed.
Modular build
Directory common/ is required in all circumstances.
You can select to support compression only, by just adding files from the compress/ directory,
In a similar way, you can build a decompressor-only library with the decompress/ directory.
Other optional functionalities provided are :
-
dictBuilder/: source files to create dictionaries. The API can be consulted indictBuilder/zdict.h. This module also depends oncommon/andcompress/. -
legacy/: source code to decompress previous versions of zstd, starting fromv0.1. This module also depends oncommon/anddecompress/. Library compilation must include directiveZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT = 1. The main API can be consulted inlegacy/zstd_legacy.h. Advanced API from each version can be found in their relevant header file. For example, advanced API for versionv0.4is inlegacy/zstd_v04.h.
Using MinGW+MSYS to create DLL
DLL can be created using MinGW+MSYS with the make libzstd command.
This command creates dll\libzstd.dll and the import library dll\libzstd.lib.
The import library is only required with Visual C++.
The header file zstd.h and the dynamic library dll\libzstd.dll are required to
compile a project using gcc/MinGW.
The dynamic library has to be added to linking options.
It means that if a project that uses ZSTD consists of a single test-dll.c
file it should be linked with dll\libzstd.dll. For example:
gcc $(CFLAGS) -Iinclude/ test-dll.c -o test-dll dll\libzstd.dll
The compiled executable will require ZSTD DLL which is available at dll\libzstd.dll.
Obsolete streaming API
Streaming is now provided within zstd.h.
Older streaming API is still available within deprecated/zbuff.h.
It will be removed in a future version.
Consider migrating code towards newer streaming API in zstd.h.
Miscellaneous
The other files are not source code. There are :
- LICENSE : contains the BSD license text
- Makefile : script to compile or install zstd library (static and dynamic)
- libzstd.pc.in : for pkg-config (
make install) - README.md : this file