libarchive
Multi-format archive and compression library
The source distribution includes the libarchive library, the bsdtar and bsdcpio command-line programs, full test suite, and documentation:
The libarchive library features:
- Support for a variety of archive and compression formats ?.
- Robust automatic format detection ?, including archive/compression combinations such as tar.gz.
- Zero-copy internal architecture ? for high performance.
- Streaming architecture eliminates all limits on size of archive, limits on entry sizes depend on particular formats.
- Carefully factored code to minimize bloat when programs are statically linked.
- Growing test suite ? to verify correctness of new ports.
- Works on most POSIX-like systems (including FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc.)
- Supports Windows, including Cygwin, MinGW, and Visual Studio.
The bsdtar ? and bscpio ? command-line utilities are feature- and performance-competitive with other tar and cpio implementations:
- Reads a variety of formats, including tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, lha, ar, cab, mtree, rar, and ISO images.
- Writes tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, ar, ISO, mtree, and shar archives.
- Automatically handles archives compressed with gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, lzma, or compress.
- Unique format conversion feature.
This site includes:
- Build Instructions ?
- Examples of using the library ?
- Formats supported by the library ?
- Documentation included in the distribution ?
- Libarchive Users ?
- Release Notes ?
- Ideas for people who want to contribute ?
License
New BSD License
Issue Tracker
The issue tracker for libarchive is hosted at Google Code.
To report a general issue, use the issue tracker. For pull requests, use GitHub's pull request feature.
Links
Continuous build
Mailing Lists
libarchive-announce
libarchive-discuss
libarchive-commits
Download
You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.
You can also clone the project with Git
by running:
$ git clone git://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
