Introduction

zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered -- that is, not covered by any patents -- lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system.

zlib is available using the command:

module load zlib

Available versions:

  • 1.2.8 (new from 26-04-2017)
  • 1.2.8-foss-2015b (new from 28-04-2017)
  • 1.2.8-GCC-4.9.3-binutils-2.25 (new from 26-04-2017)
  • 1.2.8-GCCcore-5.4.0 (new from 26-04-2017)
  • 1.2.8-intel-2016b (new from 26-04-2017)