1 <H2> Download </H2> sourceforge file area
4 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6389">
5 sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6389 </a>
9 All source releases and some binary releases are listed at the
10 sourceforge download area under the link show above. The sourceforge
11 file area is replicated all over the world and should be accessible
12 with highest bandwith in all corners of the world.
15 <H4> Which Version To Download </H4>
18 Do not use 0.10.x anymore! It is listed as stable since it is the
19 only release of zziplib tested to work on a few dozen platforms.
20 However there were some problematic zip files out there that can
21 trigger segfaults. Later zzip file decoders have extra checks and
22 helper routines for that. It's just that the later zziplib have not
23 been given as many crossplatform build tets as the 0.10.x generation.
26 Use a 0.12.x (proto-stable) or a 0.13.x (developer) variant of
27 zziplib, especially if you intend to make heavy usage of the zip
28 decoders in specialized environments - I will not add any fixes to
29 the 0.10.x series anymore (it's deep frozen) but if you hit a
30 problem with 0.13.x I can help you quickly with a patch and official
31 bugfix release. The later versions are regulary checked crossplatform
32 atleast for <b>Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Darwin/MacOSX, Win32/NT</b>
33 including i386, amd64, sparc, sparc64, powerpc where available.
36 Note that all generations 0.10.x through 0.13.x are strictly
37 <b>backward compatible</b>. There is a core API (file and dir
38 handling) being binary compatible, which is also true for most
39 of the helper routines (data getters). Only some rarely used
40 entries are made source level compatible, and so far no one had
41 ever any problem with binary compatibility of the zziplib DLLs.
44 The MSVC users are strongly advised to use a a later version as
45 well since I have tested the 0.12.x/0.13.x myself and making
46 some msc binary dll releases directly - prior versions were
47 thirdparty contributions which were working smoothly since I have
48 been preparing zziplib for win32 using the gcc/mingw compile suite.
49 Please check also the <a href="developer.html">developer pages</a>.