libzip

libzip
Developer(s) Dieter Baron, Thomas Klausner
Stable release
1.1.3 / 28 May 2016 (2016-05-28)
Written in C
Operating system cross-platform
Type Programming Library, data compression
License BSD-like license
Website www.nih.at/libzip

libzip is an open source library for handling zip archives. It is written in portable C and can thus be used on multiple operating systems. It is based on zlib. It is used by PHP's zip extension for zip file support[1] and MySQL Workbench.[2] Between 2007 [3] and 2009[4] it was used by KDE's ark archiving tool for zip archive support.

Notable features

libzip supports reading and writing zip archives. In particular, it allows extracting single or multiple files and querying their attributes (including extra fields and comments). For writing, it allows replacing files or adding new ones; the data can come from buffers, files, or even other zip archives (without recompression). Extra field data and comments (both file and archive) can be added, modified, or deleted. All changes are finalized when closing the archive, so the on-disk archive is always self-consistent.

The zip64 extension for large files is also supported.

When opening existing archives, a strict consistency check can be requested.

libzip is written in C but can be used from C++.

Since version 1.1, libzip contains a tool for modifying zip archives from the command line.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Changelog for PHP ZIP extension version 1.1.0 incorporating libzip
  2. ↑ libzip license on MySQL Workbench homepage
  3. ↑ ark Changelog introducing libzip
  4. ↑ ark Changelog removing libzip
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