libbzip2-rs: a safer libbzip

This repository contains a Rust implementation of the bzip2 file format that is compatible with the libbzip2 API.

This repository contains the following public crate:

• libbz2-rs-sys, a libbzip2-compatible C API.

How to use libbzip2-rs in your project

libbzip2-rs can be used in both Rust and C projects.

Rust projects

For the time being using the C api exported by the libbz2-rs-sys crate is the only way to use it from Rust. There is an open PR for the bzip2-rs crate to make usage significantly easier.

C projects

libbzip2-rs can be built as a shared object file for usage by C programs that dynamically link to libbzip2. Please see the example in libbz2-rs-sys-cdylib.

Acknowledgment

This project is based on a c2rust translation of the original libbzip2.

About

libbzip2-rs is part of Trifecta Tech Foundation's Data compression initiative.