This library is a refactoring of the minizip contribution found in the zlib distribution that is supported on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The motivation for this work has been the inclusion of advanced features, improvements in code maintainability and readability, and the reduction of duplicate code. It is based on the original work of Gilles Vollant that has been contributed to by many people over the years.

Dev: Master:

For my older fork of this library checkout the 1.2 branch. For the original work maintained by Mark Adler checkout the zlib minizip contrib.

Build

To generate the project files for your platform and IDE download and run cmake in the project directory.

cmake .
cmake --build .

File(s)	Description	Required
minizip.c	Sample application	No
mz_compat.*	Minizip 1.0 compatibility layer	No
mz.h	Error codes and flags	Yes
mz_os*	OS specific helper functions	Encryption
mz_strm.*	Stream interface	Yes
mz_strm_aes.*	WinZIP AES stream	No
mz_strm_buf.*	Buffered stream	No
mz_strm_bzip.*	BZIP2 stream using libbzip2	No
mz_strm_crypt.*	PKWARE traditional encryption stream	No
mz_strm_lzma.*	LZMA stream using liblzma	No
mz_strm_mem.*	Memory stream	Yes
mz_strm_split.*	Disk splitting stream	No
mz_strm_posix.*	File stream using Posix functions	Non-windows systems
mz_strm_win32.*	File stream using Win32 API functions	Windows systems
mz_strm_zlib.*	Deflate stream using zlib	Yes
mz_zip.*	Zip functionality	Yes

Features

Compression Methods

BZIP2

Requires cmake . -DUSE_BZIP2=ON or #define HAVE_BZIP2
Requires BZIP2 library

LZMA

Requires cmake . -DUSE_LZMA=ON or #define HAVE_LZMA
Requires liblzma library

Encryption

WinZIP AES Encryption

Requires cmake . -DUSE_AES=ON or #define HAVE_AES
Requires Brian Gladman's AES library

When zipping with a password it will always use AES 256-bit encryption. When unzipping it will use AES decryption only if necessary.

Disabling All Encryption

To disable encryption use the following cmake commands:

cmake . -DUSE_AES=OFF
cmake . -DUSE_CRYPT=OFF

NTFS Timestamps

Support has been added for UTC last modified, last accessed, and creation dates.

Streams

This library has been refactored around streams.

Memory Streaming

To unzip from a zip file in memory create a memory stream and pass it to the unzip open functions.

uint8_t *zip_buffer = NULL;
int32_t zip_buffer_size = 0;
void *mem_stream = NULL;

// fill zip_buffer with zip contents
mz_stream_mem_create(&mem_stream);
mz_stream_mem_set_buffer(mem_stream, zip_buffer, zip_buffer_size);
mz_stream_open(mem_stream, NULL, MZ_OPEN_MODE_READ);

void *zip_handle = mz_zip_open(mem_stream, MZ_OPEN_MODE_READ);
// do unzip operations

mz_stream_mem_delete(&mem_stream);

To create a zip file in memory first create a growable memory stream and pass it to the zip open functions.

void *mem_stream = NULL;

mz_stream_mem_create(&mem_stream);
mz_stream_mem_set_grow_size(mem_stream, (128 * 1024));
mz_stream_open(mem_stream, NULL, MZ_OPEN_MODE_CREATE);

void *zip_handle = mz_zip_open(mem_stream, MZ_OPEN_MODE_WRITE);
// do unzip operations

mz_stream_mem_delete(&mem_stream);

For a complete example, see test_zip_mem() in test.c.

Buffered Streaming

By default the library will read bytes typically one at a time. The buffered stream allows for buffered read and write operations to improve I/O performance.

void *stream = NULL;
void *buf_stream = NULL;

mz_stream_os_create(&stream)
// do open os stream

mz_stream_buffered_create(&buf_stream);
mz_stream_buffered_open(buf_stream, NULL, MZ_OPEN_MODE_READ);
mz_stream_buffered_set_base(buf_stream, stream);

void *zip_handle = mz_zip_open(buf_stream, MZ_OPEN_MODE_READ);

Disk Splitting Stream

To create an archive with multiple disks use the disk splitting stream and for zipping supply a disk size value in bytes.

void *stream = NULL;
void *split_stream = NULL;

mz_stream_os_create(&stream);

mz_stream_split_create(&split_stream);
mz_stream_split_set_prop_int64(split_stream, MZ_STREAM_PROP_DISK_SIZE, 64 * 1024);

mz_stream_set_base(split_stream, stream);

mz_stream_open(split_stream, path..

handle = mz_zip_open(split_stream, MZ_OPEN_MODE_WRITE);

The central directory is the only data stored in the .zip and doesn't follow disk size restrictions.

When unzipping it will automatically determine when in needs to cross disk boundaries.

Windows RT

Requires #define MZ_USE_WINRT_API

Limitations

Archives are required to have a central directory.
Central directory header values should be correct and it is necessary for the compressed size to be accurate for AES encryption.
Central directory encryption is not supported due to licensing restrictions mentioned by PKWARE in their zip appnote.

README.md

Minizip 2.2.2