The lib directory contains several files, but depending on target use case, some of them may not be necessary.
To build the zstd library the following files are required:
Stable API is exposed in common/zstd.h. Advanced and experimental API can be enabled by defining ZSTD_STATIC_LINKING_ONLY
. Never use them with a dynamic library, as their definition may change in future versions.
To build a separate zstd compressor all files from common/
and compressor/
directories are required. In a similar way to build a separate zstd decompressor all files from common/
and decompressor/
directories are needed.
This complementary API makes streaming integration easier. It is used by zstd
command line utility, and 7zip plugin :
In order to create dictionaries from some training sets, it's needed to include all files from dictBuilder directory
Zstandard can decode previous formats, starting from v0.1. Support for these format is provided in folder legacy. It's also required to compile the library with ZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT = 1
.
The other files are not source code. There are :