Hi,
I wanted to zip up some files using assembly language. But I am not sure what library to use. Has anyone else programmed a zip app?
I did think about the inbuilt zip function of windows, but I wanted my program to be self sufficient.
Any help would be great.
Cheers.
I use FreeArc for MasmBasic's ZipFiles & UnZipFiles commands. The commandline options are really convenient for that purpose. If you want to avoid commandlines, it becomes trickier. There are various DLLs around, but accessing them is not so easy...
%ProgramFiles%\FreeArc\bin\Arc.exe -dp#d# x #a#
%ProgramFiles%\FreeArc\bin\Arc.exe create -mx #a# @
zlib? http://zlib.net/
Thanks guys, I appreciate your help.
I did actually think it would be easier to write in C# but that would create a big, fat bloated pig of a binary.
Assembly is just so much faster and neater.
AP,
Have a look at Jibz's aPlib library, its written in C but it does work well and you can link it directly into an executable.