Easylzma 是一个实现了 LZMA 压缩和解压缩算法的 C 语言库。

LZMA，（Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm的縮寫），是 2001年以來得到發展的一個數據壓縮演算法，它用於 7-Zip 歸檔工具中的 7z 格式。它使用類似於 LZ77 的字典編碼機制，在一般的情況下壓縮率比 bzip2 為高，用於壓縮的字典檔大小可達4GB。

示例代码：

/*
 * an example of basic LZMA compression to and from memory buffers
 * using the easylzma library.
 */
 
#include "easylzma/compress.h"
 
#include
#include
 
struct dataStream
{
    const unsigned char * inData;
    size_t inLen;
 
    unsigned char * outData;
    size_t outLen;
};

/* an input callback that will be passed to elzma_compress_run(),
 * it reads from a memory buffer */
static int
inputCallback(void *ctx, void *buf, size_t * size)
{
    size_t rd = 0;
    struct dataStream * ds = (struct dataStream *) ctx;
    assert(ds != NULL);
   
    rd = (ds->inLen < *size) ? ds->inLen : *size;
 
    if (rd > 0) {
        memcpy(buf, (void *) ds->inData, rd);
        ds->inData += rd;
        ds->inLen -= rd;
    }
 
    *size = rd;
 
    return 0;
}

/* an ouput callback that will be passed to elzma_compress_run(),
 * it reallocs and writes to a memory buffer */
static size_t
outputCallback(void *ctx, const void *buf, size_t size)
{
    struct dataStream * ds = (struct dataStream *) ctx;
    assert(ds != NULL);
   
    if (size > 0) {
        ds->outData = realloc(ds->outData, ds->outLen + size);
        memcpy((void *) (ds->outData + ds->outLen), buf, size);
        ds->outLen += size;
    }
 
    return size;
}

/* a function that will compress data using a 1mb dictionary and a
 * client specified encoding format (one of ELZMA_lzip or ELZMA_lzma) */
int
simpleCompress(elzma_file_format format, const unsigned char * inData,
               size_t inLen, unsigned char ** outData,
               size_t * outLen)
{
    int rc;
    elzma_compress_handle hand;
 
    /* allocate compression handle */
    hand = elzma_compress_alloc();
    assert(hand != NULL);

    /* configure the compression run with mostly default parameters  */
    rc = elzma_compress_config(hand, ELZMA_LC_DEFAULT,
                               ELZMA_LP_DEFAULT, ELZMA_PB_DEFAULT,
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