RE: Zip Library

Hi Josh

lua-ziparchive looks like it could do what I want. It would be very helpful if the Windows DLL binary was available, could you attach it to an email to this list please ? I am using Lua 5.1, I assume that shouldn't be a problem compatibility wise ?

Thanks Geoff

> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 09:56:12 +0800
> From: nerditation@outlook.com
> To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
> Subject: Re: Zip Library
>
> 在 2015/5/22 4:43, Geoff Smith 写道:
> > Hello
> >
> > I need a quick and simple Lua Windows library to zip up some text files using Lua. I thought this would be easy to find as its such a common requirement. The relevant wiki pages didn't seem to give me a library that satisfied the following
> >
> > 1) Minimal dependencies, ideally just one or two DLL's that do the hard work.
> > 2) Comes with the DLL binary(ies), and doesn't require me to faff around building the DLL myself.
> > 3) Is simple to use and comes with some documentation on how to use it.
> >
> > Have I missed a zipping library, that meets the above fairly basic criteria ? Any possible suggestions that I might have missed would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks Geoff
>
>
> check the zlib bindings(e.g. [1]&[2]), which should meet your needs.
> zlib officially released a prebuilt DLL binrary for Windows[3].
>
> [1] https://github.com/LuaDist/lzlib
> [2] https://github.com/LuaDist/lua-zlib
> [3] http://zlib.net/zlib128-dll.zip
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