compress-tools

The compress-tools crate aims to provide a convenient and easy to use set of methods which builds on top of libarchive exposing a small set of it’s functionalities.

Platform	Build Status
Linux - x86_64
macOS - x86_64
Windows - x86_64

Dependencies

You must have libarchive, 3.2.0 or newer, properly installed on your system in order to use this. If building on *nix and Windows GNU systems, pkg-config is used to locate the libarchive; on Windows MSVC, vcpkg will be used to locating the libarchive.

The minimum supported Rust version is 1.59.

Features

This crate is capable of extracting:

• compressed files
• archive files
• single file from an archive

For example, to extract an archive file it is as simple as:

use compress_tools::*;
use std::fs::File;
use std::path::Path;

let mut source = File::open("tree.tar.gz")?;
let dest = Path::new("/tmp/dest");

uncompress_archive(&mut source, &dest, Ownership::Preserve)?;

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.