libdeflate is a library for fast, whole-buffer DEFLATE-based compression and decompression. The supported formats are: DEFLATE (raw) zlib (a.k.a. DEFLATE with a zlib wrapper) gzip (a.k.a. DEFLATE with a gzip wrapper) libdeflate is heavily optimized. It is significantly faster than the zlib library, both for compression and decompression, and especially on x86 and ARM processors. In addition, libdeflate provides optional high compression modes that provide a better compression ratio than the zlib's "level 9". As well as installing a shared library, the cmake recipe installs a static library (libdeflate.a) which is usually not kept in the final package. If it is required to be kept in the final package, run the SlackBuild with the environment variable KEEP_STATIC_LIB=yes e.g. KEEP_STATIC_LIB=yes bash libdeflate.SlackBuild