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Zip on-the-fly compression library in C for streaming

Is there a library for creating zip files (the zip file format not gzip or any other compression format) on-the-fly (so I can start sending the file while it is compressing) for very large files (4 Gb and above).

The compression ratio does not matter much (mostly media files).

The library has to have a c-interface and work on Debian and OSX.

Solution

  • libarchive supports any format you want, on the fly and even in-memory files.