我如何使用zlib在C中压缩并在golang中解压缩

Question

So I have been trying to convert some data from C to be compressed and sent to a library which is in golang where it will be decompressed. only issue is, they seem to be slightly different implementations from each other.

What i did was to use "zlib.h" library from C to compress the string "hello" which resulted in bytes of

[120 156 203 72 205 201 201 103 32 5]

while in golang for the same string "hello" results in an array of

[120 156 202 72 205 201 201 7 4 0 0 255 255 6 44 2 21]

My question is if there is a way to make these outputs similar , what is it? or at the very least can a compressed data in C be decompressed in zlib?

I've also looked at How can I use zlib in golang to cooperate with zlib in c? but i'm looking for something more specific like an example.

Answer 1

Comparing compressed data tells you nothing. Different compressors, or different versions of the same compressor, or the same version used with different settings, can all give different compressed output for the same input. What actually matters for a lossless compressor is whether you can decompress to the original data.

The problem with your first example is that it is not complete. (The second example is complete and correct.) The first example ends in the middle of a deflate block. There is an error in your usage of zlib, either in managing the resulting data or not properly requesting the completion of the compression.