# Install zxc with Homebrew, winget High-performance asymmetric lossless compression library. Version 0.13.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-30. Also installable with winget: winget install --id hellobertrand.zxc -e. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:zxc ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install zxc ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Windows - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id hellobertrand.zxc -e ``` Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: hellobertrand.zxc from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:zxc - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.13.2 - **Source summary:** High-performance asymmetric lossless compression library - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **License:** BSD-3-Clause - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-30T07:26:45Z - **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - unzxc (cli) - zxc (cli) - unzxc (alias) - zxc (alias) ## Build dependencies - cmake ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-04 - Package-manager version: 0.13.2 - Package-manager updated: 2026-07-30 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/hellobertrand/zxc - Upstream latest detected: v0.13.2 (current) ## Project history and usage ZXC is a young asymmetric lossless compression library built around write-once/read-many workloads: spend more effort while compressing so decompression is extremely fast at runtime. ### Project history The public repository starts in late 2025 and credits Bertrand Lebonnois and contributors. The README positions ZXC as a C library with official Rust, Python, Node.js, and Go bindings, hand-tuned SIMD paths, a seekable format, and a design focused on modern ARM and x86 pipelines. ### Adoption history Because ZXC is new, its adoption history is mostly early ecosystem seeding rather than long-term production lineage. The project highlights inclusion in lzbench and TurboBench benchmark suites, plus availability through C/C++ package ecosystems and language-specific bindings, as evidence that it is being made easy to test against existing codecs. ### How it is used ZXC targets assets and payloads compressed once and read many times: game assets, app bundles, firmware updates, content delivery, and embedded data. The CLI compresses and decompresses files, while the C API and language bindings let applications embed the codec directly. ### Why package nerds care For package nerds, ZXC is interesting less as a mature standard and more as a packaged experiment in codec trade-offs. It competes with the LZ4/Snappy/Zstd mental model by making decompression throughput and ratio at read time the headline package value. ### Timeline - 2025-12: Public git history begins and early 0.1.x releases appear. - 2026-02: 0.6.0-era changes emphasize compression, ratio, and data-integrity improvements. - 2026-06: 0.12.0-era release work extends signed release provenance and packaging polish. ### Related projects - LZ4 and LZ4HC: the speed-oriented family ZXC benchmarks against most directly. - Zstd: the denser general-purpose codec ZXC contrasts with in its design discussion. - lzbench and TurboBench: benchmark suites used to compare ZXC with other codecs. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for zxc. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** zxc - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - winget - hellobertrand.zxc: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: hellobertrand.zxc from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Archive and compression packages](https://pkg.so/archive-compression-tools/) - Matched archive or compression metadata. - [cmake](https://pkg.so/brew/cmake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [heatshrink](https://pkg.so/brew/heatshrink/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c-library, cli, compression, data. - [bzip2](https://pkg.so/brew/bzip2/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, compression, data. - [netcdf](https://pkg.so/brew/netcdf/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c-library, cli, data. - [libgeotiff](https://pkg.so/brew/libgeotiff/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c-library, cli, data. - [ta-lib](https://pkg.so/brew/ta-lib/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c-library, cli, data. - [tdb](https://pkg.so/brew/tdb/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c-library, cli, data. - [tokyo-cabinet](https://pkg.so/brew/tokyo-cabinet/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c-library, cli, data. - [shapelib](https://pkg.so/brew/shapelib/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: c-library, cli, data. - [bzip3](https://pkg.so/brew/bzip3/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, compression, data, lossless. - [lmdb](https://pkg.so/npm/lmdb/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, data, high, high-performance, performance. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/zxc.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/zxc.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - pkgdb category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph