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https://github.com/phoe/cl-lzma

Common Lisp CFFI wrapper around a LZMA foreign library
https://github.com/phoe/cl-lzma

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Common Lisp CFFI wrapper around a LZMA foreign library

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# CL-LZMA

This is a CFFI wrapper around a LZMA foreign library, compiled straight out of the official LZMA SDK C binary.

There is no portable Lisp LZMA (de)compressor because:
* the algorithm is complicated
* the LZMA SDK is very obfuscated code
* there is hardly any documentation for LZMA algorithm
* there is no known workforce that can rewrite this in Lisp.

## TODO
* write a proper README, since the code seems to be working `on my machine`

## Compiling
Right now, Windows, Linux and macOS x32/x64 binaries are provided. (32bit macOS binaries were not tested yet - if they work for you, please let me know.)

To compile your own:
1. Install the official LZMA SDK from Igor Pavlov.
1. Modify /C/Util/Lzma/makefile.gcc, add -fPIC to CFLAGS.
1. Remove `makefile` and move `makefile.gcc` to `makefile`.
1. Issue make, which will build all object files.
1. Build the shared library file. On Linux, this is `$ gcc -shared -O2 -Wall -D_7ZIP_ST -fPIC -o lzma.so *.o` - on other platforms, I bet you can figure it out.
1. Put the file anywhere you want and load it with CFFI.

## Credits and inspirations
This is based on https://gist.github.com/phoe/8cfdcb4f34e0584c703f1751072a7813 - a CFFI wrapper that I quickly hacked up.

This is based on https://gist.github.com/Treeki/f431a2ff44aff984590a97a5c09f6f28 which is a C interface to the LZMA SDK.