March Blog - Building the Project

Despite the project being pushed back a bit into April I wanted to include it in the March blogs because a good portion of the work was done in march. During Lab 5 I learned a lot about the stuff I missed such as how to build the software and build code. This was really helpful because I dont think would have been able to get much of the Stage 1 for the project done at all. At the end of Stage 1 I decided to use Zopfli as my choice for open source software.
        After going through multiple projects I settled with Zopfli because it was slow and it was extremely easy to build. Some of the projects that i tried to build was multiple times harder to build that Zopfli and it honestly wasnt worth the Effort.
        If you'd like to know more about this stage in the project you can take a look at my Stage 1 Blog that I created for this project.

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