A repo to demonstrate libarchive usage

Dependencies

libarchive requires zlib. zlib is installed on most UNIX systems by default. If not, install it using your system-specific package manager such as apt or brew.

Demo

1. Clone the repo
   • git clone https://github.com/nav-mohan/example_libarchive
2. Initialize and update the submodule libarchive
   • git submodule init
   • git submodule update
3. Compile
   • mkdir build
   • cd build
   • cmake ..
   • make

Note

Many flags listed in libarchive_flags.cmake have been toggled OFF (such as TESTS, OPENSSL, UNZIP) because they were not required for my project. I've also disabled other dependancies such as zlib, and tar to significantly reduce compile-time.

Note

In this example, I've chosen to build the static library and linked against the libarchive_static. To build the shared-libarary version, toggle the flag BUILD_SHARED_LIBS and link against libarchive.

Note

Compilation of libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_zip.c throws an unused variable error for char finishing. Commenting it out fixes it.