[fpc-pascal] Archive libraries

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2020-08-20 17:10, Darius Blaszyk via fpc-pascal wrote:


Hi,

> To my delight I found out that FPC actually provides quite a few 
> archive
> handling libraries out of the box. Thanks to all that have contributed 
> to
> that! So far I found:
> 
> * tar
> * tar.gz
> * zip
> 
> Are there any other formats out there that I could use like out of the 
> box?

bzip2 is directly supported in FPC packages as well.

There are 3rd party Pascal units supporting work with other archive 
formats (mostly listing and decompression) either using shared 
libraries, or containing direct implementation of certain functionality 
(there has been e.g. unrar.pas containing a port of the original C 
implementation to Pascal, although it wouldn't support current RAR 
format versions) and which might be compiled with FPC rather easily, but 
you're on your own there, of course.

Tomas