Re: ZIP archives

FROM : Dragan Mili?
DATE : Wed Jul 26 08:29:44 2006

On uto 25. 07. 2006., at 21:24, Mike Abdullah wrote:

> I am wanting to implement in my app the ability to create 
> standard .zip archives.  I have looked through the list archives 
> and read various things on the internet, but I'm rather confused :(


Hi.

Small and simple C library (open source, see code to figure out how 
to use it). Probably completely sufficient for most needs:
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip101e.zip
More info on it:
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html

Much bigger, but more powerful C++ library (also open code, but fully 
documented):
http://www.artpol-software.com/downloads/ziparch_full.zip
More info (including licensing) on it:
http://www.artpol-software.com/zipdoc/Zip.aspx

Both libraries rely on zlib library for compression (deflate), so you 
need to link your code against libz.dylib, already pre-installed with 
Mac OS X.

I've used both libraries successfully in the past.

Regards,
Milke