markstreet/gzip repository overview

⁠gzip

This is a mirror of the gzip repository, patched to support Rareware compression (aka gzip released before 1.5).

⁠Building

NOTE: The following steps have been tested successfully on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/20.04; if you are using a different distro, your dependencies will likely be different.

Install pre-requisites:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y \
    autoconf \
    autopoint \
    build-essential \
    gettext \
    git \
    rsync \
    texinfo

Clone repository and navigate inside:

git clone https://github.com/mkst/gzip.git && cd gzip

Bootstrap:

./bootstrap

Configure:

./configure --enable-rare-deflate

Compile:

make --jobs