Lazarus_Packer

PV_Packer - simple pure Pascal library to pack files to various archives (ZIP, RAR, TAR...)

See also: https://github.com/PascalVault/Lazarus_Unpacker

Supported formats

• .ZIP
• .TAR
• .GZ
• .GZA
• .BH
• .RAR (method "store")
• .ARJ (method "store")
• .ACE (method "store")
• .LZH .LHA (method "store")
• .ARC (method "store")
• .ZOO (can be opened with IZarc) (method "store")

Unsupported, yet

• encryption

Usage

uses PV_Packer;
...
var Zip: TPacker; 
begin
Zip := TPacker.Create('out.tar', 'tar');
Zip.SetComment('Created by PV_Packer'); //not all formats support comments yet

Zip.AddFile('input file.txt', 'name in the archive.txt'); //or
Zip.AddFile('input file.txt');

Zip.Free;      

Usage - GZIP

uses PV_Packer;
...
var Zip: TPacker; 
begin
Zip := TPacker.Create('out.gz', 'gz');
Zip.SetComment('Created by PV_Packer'); 

Zip.AddFile('input file.txt', 'name in the archive.txt');
Zip.AddFile('input file.txt'); //this returns False because there can be only 1 file in .GZIP

Zip.Free;