minizip-ng is a zip manipulation library written in C that is supported on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Minizip was originally developed by Gilles Vollant in 1998. It was first included in the zlib distribution as an additional code contribution starting in zlib 1.1.2. Since that time, it has been continually improved upon and contributed to by many people. The original project can still be found in the zlib distribution that is maintained by Mark Adler. The motivation behind this repository has been the need for new features and bug fixes to the original library which had not been maintained for a long period of time. The code has been largely refactored and rewritten in order to help improve maintainability and readability. A compatibility layer has been provided for consumers of the original minizip library.
Features
- Creating and extracting zip archives
- Adding and removing entries from zip archives
- Read and write raw zip entry data
- Reading and writing zip archives from memory
- Support for large files with ZIP64 extension
- Password protection through Traditional PKWARE and WinZIP AES encryption
- Zlib, BZIP2, LZMA, XZ, and ZSTD compression methods
- Buffered streaming for improved I/O performance
Project Samples
