Question

So we have some stringstream with somedata. With help of which cross platform library we can turn its contents into gziped format (you would save it into file with extention .tar.gz)

Lets get into code: so I have:

          stringstream body;
          body << std::ifstream( path.string().c_str(), ios::binary).rdbuf();

Which includes shall I add, which function should I call to encode stringstream and which finction to call to turn to put that encoded data into stringstream?

BTW: is there any boost library that can encode into gzip

Answer 1

boost.iostreams has optional built-in support for bzip2 and gzip compression/decompression.