# huffman

**Repository Path**: shwu54/huffman

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: huffman
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Unlicense
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2023-11-14
- **Last Updated**: 2023-11-14

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

# huffman

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A huffman coding library and command line interface to the library. The encoder is a 2 pass encoder. The first pass generates a huffman tree and the second pass encodes the data. The decoder is one pass and uses a huffman code table at the beginning of the compressed file to decode the data.

libhuffman has functions for encoding and decoding both files and memory.


## Makefile Build

To build:

    make

To run unit tests:

    make check

To run unit tests under valgrind:

    make valgrind_check


## CMake Build

To build:

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake ..
    cmake --build .

To run all tests:

    ctest

To run unit tests:

    ctest -R ^check$

To run unit tests under valgrind:

    ctest -R ^valgrind_check$