Build

Ubuntu 14.04 TLS

$ https://github.com/google/snappy.git
$ git checkout 1.1.3
$ apt-get install automake
$ apt-get install libtool
$ apt-get install libgflags-dev libgoogle-glog-dev libgtest-dev
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make

Using

$ ./snappy_unittest
$ ./snappy_unittest -run_microbenchmarks=false -write_compressed a.txt
$ ./snappy_unittest -run_microbenchmarks=false -write_uncompressed a.txt.comp
$ ./snappy_unittest -run_microbenchmarks=false -zlib testdata/*