LibArchiveCocoa

!NOTE! For public release, change podspec file git@github.com: to use HTTPS.

Quickstart

Simply include this pod in your Podfile:

pod 'LibArchiveCocoa', '~> 3.4.2'

Summary

This repo contains a CocoaPod wrapper for the LibArchive project, which provides a popular cross-platform open source solution for reading and writing Zip, Tar, and other archives.

Note that LibArchive is actually baked into iOS internally but concealed as a private API, so for practical use in your App you need to build LibArchive and statically link it yourself.

LibArchive can almost be baked into an iOS app as-is from source, with the exception that the user must provide a config.h platform header to enable/disable certain features. This project provides that header, as well as a Podspec for easy inclusion of LibArchive in your App. To reproduce the included config.h, start by cloning LibArchive locally and build using cmake -G Xcode -DENABLE_ICONV=OFF . as documented on the LibArchive wiki. You may need to make a few tweaks to get the resulting config.h to build for the iOS simulator & device.

Note that the license used in this repo is independent of that used in LibArchive; LibArchive currently has a BSD-like license

Development

Tags

We keep tags in this repo in sync with LibArchive releases.

To create a new release:

• Clone this repo including submodules (git clone --recursive)
• cd libarchive and git checkout the release of LibArchive that you want.
• Edit the podspec in this repo to match the version tag you checked out.
• Create a PR and merge your changes to this repo.
• Push a tag on this repo with a name that matches the version name used in your updated podspec (which should also match a LibArchive tag).

Pushing the Podspec

When pushing the podspec, use --allow-warnings so we can ignore some irrelevant warnings:

$ pod repo push MyRepo LibArchiveCocoa.podspec.json --allow-warnings --use-libraries