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diff --git a/doc/manual/compression.rst b/doc/manual/compression.rst index 808b7f0dc..2d1f4c142 100644 --- a/doc/manual/compression.rst +++ b/doc/manual/compression.rst @@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ Lossless Data Compression Some lossless data compression algorithms are available in botan, currently all via third party libraries - these include zlib (including deflate and gzip -formats), bzip2, and lzma. +formats), bzip2, and lzma. Support for these must be enabled at build time; +you can check for them using the macros ``BOTAN_HAS_ZLIB``, ``BOTAN_HAS_BZIP2``, +and ``BOTAN_HAS_LZMA``. .. note:: You should always compress *before* you encrypt, because encryption seeks to |