Question

Writing an app that will include the ability to decompress zip and rar files. I think I’m OK on how to handle the .zips but .rars seem a little more trouble. I noticed that rarlabs has source available but it’s C++. Is there a way to compile, wrap or otherwise use this code within an iPhone app?

Reference: http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

Open to alternate suggestions on how to handle .rar files as well.

I’m still pretty much a newbie so please explain in small words 🙂

Answer 1

If all you need is to decompress RAR files, this library may be much easier for you to compile since it’s a single C source file:

http://www.unrarlib.org/features.html

I had looked at compiling the library you mentioned, but there were a lot of errors and it was not initially apparent just how to resolve some of them (file type was not the issue).