ZipLib

ZipLib is a lightweight C++11 library for working with ZIP archives with ease. The very useful feature of ZipLib is that it is built around STL streams, no additional dependencies (boost) are required.

It is a fork of https://bitbucket.org/wbenny/ziplib with own adjustments and unmerged fixes from issues and pull requests from the original repository.

Features

• Compression/decompresion using the DEFLATE algorithm
• Storing/fetching files without compression
• Adding, editing and removing files and directories in the archive
• Support of the data descriptor
• Data flow is driven via STL streams, therefore there is no need to load huge amount of data into the memory
• Support of PKWare encryption
• Support of entry comments and archive comments
• Contains very usable stream classes in ZipLib/streams like memory stream, substream or teestream
• Contains functions for easy (de)serialization (ZipLib/streams/serialization.h)
• Project is using only C++11 standard libraries, therefore there IS NO dependency on 3rd party libraries (except of included zlib, which uses C standard library)
• Built around STL smart pointers
• Support of Windows and Linux

Fork features

• Project files for building under WSL (Linux) using Visual Studio 2019 or newer.
• Removed dependency on zlib's CRC32 calculation in case its support is disabled.
• ZIP file support up to 4 GB.
• Ability to toggle support of specific compression methods. Define any of these macros for both ZipLib and your project:
  • ZIPLIB_NO_BZIP2 - disable compression using bzip2 library.
  • ZIPLIB_NO_LZMA - disable compression using LZMA library.
  • ZIPLIB_NO_ZLIB - disable compression using zlib library.

License

Original software belongs to Petr Benes (see Licence.txt file).