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diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm index 15a12d03c2..3f486d38c1 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2017 Petter <petter@mykolab.ch> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> ;;; Copyright © 2018 Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com> +;;; Copyright © 2018 Joshua Sierles, Nextjournal <joshua@nextjournal.com> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -2112,3 +2113,46 @@ single-member files which can't be decompressed in parallel.") (description "innoextract allows extracting Inno Setup installers under non-Windows systems without running the actual installer using wine.") (license license:zlib))) + +(define-public google-brotli + (package + (name "google-brotli") + (version "1.0.2") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "https://github.com/google/brotli/archive/v" + version ".tar.gz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "08kl9gww2058p1p7j9xqmcmrabcfihhj3fq984d7fi3bchb2mky2")))) + (build-system cmake-build-system) + (arguments + `(#:phases + (modify-phases %standard-phases + (add-after 'install 'rename-static-libraries + ;; The build tools put a 'static' suffix on the static libraries, but + ;; other applications don't know how to find these. + (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) + (let ((lib (string-append (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/lib/"))) + (rename-file (string-append lib "libbrotlicommon-static.a") + (string-append lib "libbrotlicommon.a")) + (rename-file (string-append lib "libbrotlidec-static.a") + (string-append lib "libbrotlidec.a")) + (rename-file (string-append lib "libbrotlienc-static.a") + (string-append lib "libbrotlienc.a")) + #t)))) + #:configure-flags + (list ;; Defaults to "lib64" on 64-bit archs. + (string-append "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=" + (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/lib")))) + (home-page "https://github.com/google/brotli") + (synopsis "General-purpose lossless compression") + (description "This package provides the reference implementation of Brotli, +a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a +combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd +order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best +currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed +with @code{deflate} but offers more dense compression. + +The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932.") + (license license:expat))) |