An OTEr ZIP library (libzip compatible)

A minimalistic ZIP implementation in plain C with support for multiple compression algorithms.

Features

• Small, portable library with zero dependencies
• Full ZIP read/write support
• Multiple compression algorithms (DEFLATE, ZSTD, LZMA, Brotli, LZFSE)
• Simple API compatible with libzip subset
• Suitable for embedded systems

Building

# Build default binary
make

# Build with all compression algorithms
make all-compression

# Install
make install

# Run tests
make -C test

Usage

Library API

#include "otezip/zip.h"

// Open ZIP file
zip_t *za = zip_open("archive.zip", ZIP_RDONLY, &err);

// Read files
zip_uint64_t num_files = zip_get_num_files(za);
for (zip_uint64_t i = 0; i < num_files; ++i) {
    zip_file_t *zf = zip_fopen_index(za, i, 0);
    // Process zf->data and zf->size
    zip_fclose(zf);
}

// Create ZIP file
zip_t *za_write = zip_open("new.zip", ZIP_CREATE, &err);
zip_source_t *src = zip_source_buffer(za_write, buffer, size, 1);
zip_file_add(za_write, "file.txt", src, 0);
zip_set_file_compression(za_write, index, OTEZIP_METHOD_ZSTD, 0);
zip_close(za_write);

Command Line Tool

# List contents
./otezip -l archive.zip

# Extract files
./otezip -x archive.zip

# Create archive
./otezip -c archive.zip file1 file2

# Add files
./otezip -a archive.zip file3

Configuration

Edit config.h to enable/disable compression algorithms:

#define OTEZIP_ENABLE_DEFLATE 1
#define OTEZIP_ENABLE_ZSTD    1
#define OTEZIP_ENABLE_LZMA    1
#define OTEZIP_ENABLE_BROTLI  1
#define OTEZIP_ENABLE_LZFSE   1

Supported Compression Algorithms

• DEFLATE (ID: 8): Standard ZIP compression
• ZSTD (ID: 93): Fast, high compression
• LZMA (ID: 14): High compression ratio
• Brotli (ID: 97): Better than DEFLATE for static content
• LZFSE (ID: 100): Apple's mobile-optimized algorithm
• STORE (ID: 0): No compression

Limitations

• No encryption or ZIP64 support
• Limited multi-file extraction
• Non-standard methods may not work with all ZIP tools

License

MIT / 0-BSD