How to write your own WinZip

Have you ever want to make your very own data compression utility to beat WinZip, but always failed at all that math? Well, there is your chance. There are three Win32 functions will do the trick:

• RtlCompressBuffer
• RtlDecompressBuffer
• RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize

And without further ado here is the C code example of how to use these functions:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

/*
#define COMPRESSION_FORMAT_LZNT1    0x0002
#define COMPRESSION_ENGINE_STANDARD 0x0000 // Standart compression
#define COMPRESSION_ENGINE_MAXIMUM  0x0100 // Maximum (slowest but better)
*/

#define CMP_FRM     COMPRESSION_FORMAT_LZNT1|COMPRESSION_ENGINE_MAXIMUM

typedef DWORD (__stdcall *RtlCompressBuffer_Fn)(
                    IN ULONG    CompressionFormat,
                    IN PVOID    SourceBuffer,
                    IN ULONG    SourceBufferLength,
                    OUT PVOID   DestinationBuffer,
                    IN ULONG    DestinationBufferLength,
                    IN ULONG    Unknown,
                    OUT PULONG  pDestinationSize,
                    IN PVOID    WorkspaceBuffer );

typedef DWORD (__stdcall *RtlDecompressBuffer_Fn)(
                    IN ULONG    CompressionFormat,
                    OUT PVOID   DestinationBuffer,
                    IN ULONG    DestinationBufferLength,
                    IN PVOID    SourceBuffer,
                    IN ULONG    SourceBufferLength,
                    OUT PULONG  pDestinationSize );

typedef DWORD (__stdcall *RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize_Fn)(
                    IN ULONG    CompressionFormat,
                    OUT PULONG  pNeededBufferSize,
                    OUT PULONG  pUnknown );

int main (void)
{
   char dst[512] = {0};
   char buf[] = "abcabcabcabcabcabcabc";
   HANDLE hDLL;
   RtlCompressBuffer_Fn fcmp;
   RtlDecompressBuffer_Fn fdcp;
   RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize_Fn fgcw;
   DWORD dw, xx, rc;
   void *tmpMem;
   register unsigned char i;

   hDLL = LoadLibrary ("ntdll.dll");
   if ( hDLL != NULL )
   {
     fcmp = (RtlCompressBuffer_Fn) GetProcAddress(hDLL, "RtlCompressBuffer");
     fdcp = (RtlDecompressBuffer_Fn) GetProcAddress(hDLL, "RtlDecompressBuffer");
     fgcw = (RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize_Fn) GetProcAddress(hDLL, "RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize");

     if ( fcmp && fdcp && fgcw)
     {
        rc = (*fgcw)(CMP_FRM, &dw,  &xx);
        tmpMem = LocalAlloc(LPTR, dw);
        rc = (*fcmp)(CMP_FRM, buf, sizeof(buf), dst, sizeof(dst), xx, &dw, tmpMem);
        LocalFree(tmpMem);
        for (i = 0; i< dw; i++) printf("%c", (BYTE) dst[i]); printf("\n--\n");
        for (i = 0; i< sizeof(buf); i++) buf[i] = 0;

        rc = (*fdcp)(CMP_FRM, buf, sizeof(buf), dst, dw, &xx);
        for (i = 0; i< xx; i++) printf("%c", (BYTE) buf[i]); printf("\n");
     }

     FreeLibrary(hDLL);
   }

   return 0;
}