C/C++ Windows+Linux ZIP Library for only unpacking?

Question

Continuation of: Standalone Cross Platform (Windows/Linux)) File Compression for C/C++?

After many attempts on ZLIB ZZLIB LIBZIP MINIZIP I always get many problems at the compilation stage. Many google searches turned out OS-specific libraries and I can't really find anything that fit my 'simple' needs.

I reduced my needs for the library (Or wrapper?) to this:

• Works on both Windows and Linux OR 2 separate libraries; one which works on Windows and the other one on Linux, I can make 2 separate projects for Windows and Linux if it is really neccesary

• Unpack file from zip to specified directory

• Check if file exists in zip file

• C OR C++ OR Mixed (yeah, that doesn't matter)

• Preferably Very Simple to include into any project (eg 5 c/cpp files and 1-3 header files? anyway not tons files, when I open all the libzip and zlib archives I have something like: "O my ..")

I've checked many stackoveflow threads too with the words "Windows Linux ZIP C C++" but all the results seem so have libraries which I OR don't know how to compile OR is too difficult to use OR it has too many 'needed stuff' for just simple zip extract and check if file exists.

I had put that project away for a later date and begun it now, and all those compilation errors came up (especially that VC++2010 doesn't have the C-99 inttypes.h)

Answer 1

I have had very good experience with Zipstream C++ library which gives you a nice OOP way of handling zip files.

If your project already uses some of the bigger libs like Boost , then you could try to use the boost::iostreams with the gzip filter, however the functionality is somehow limited.

Or if you happen to use Poco take a look at they're implementation Poco::Zip