Because why not?

gcc -Wall -O2 -std=c99 -c main.c -o main.o

gcc -Wall -O2 -std=c99 -c quicklz.c -o quicklz.o

g++ -o ./ quicklz.o -s

http://www.quicklz.com/

quicklz -h

outputs

Quicklz implementation version 1:

usage: quicklz [options]:

   -f file - input file that will be compress or decompress. This can be stdin.
   -h      - show this help message.
   -o file - output file. This can be stdout.
   -d      - will decompress the file given via stdin or via -f option.

Examples:.

   cat file.qlz | quicklz -d > file
   cat file | quicklz > file.qlz
   quicklz -i file -o file.qlz
   quicklz -d -i file.qlz -o file