Provide an interface for fuzzing sequence producer plugins #3551
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Fuzz-testing for the external sequence producer API was introduced in PR #3437. However, the setup in #3437 only allows fuzzers to exercise the implementation of the API on the libzstd side (the code in the core zstd library which interacts with a plugin). This PR allows us to fuzz the plugin code itself, which is a requirement for us to use plugins (such as hardware accelerators) in production.
Here is an example showing how this new interface allows us to link plugin code into the fuzzer build: