Question

Is it possible to use the bare minimum zlib available on iPhone to uncompress a zip of a folder. I don’t want to go for a open source library, please enlighten me the difficulty or possibility of implementing one piece of code which can uncompress a zip file.

Answer 1

As JosephH said, you cannot use ZLib to deal with .zip files.

But you can use the MiniZip library for that: http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html

There’s already an Objective-C wrapper, if you don’t want to write yours: http://code.google.com/p/ziparchive/

FYI – ZLib on iPhone:

Adds libz to the linked frameworks of your main target, just as another framework.

Then, you can check the ZLIB tutorials, to learn how to compress/decompress a file: http://www.zlib.net/zlib_how.html