QuaZIP is the C++ wrapper for Gilles Vollant's ZIP/UNZIP package (AKA minizip) using Trolltech's Qt library. It uses existing ZIP/UNZIP package C code and therefore depends on the zlib library. Also, it depends on Qt 4. To compile it on UNIX dialect: $ cd quazip $ qmake $ make You must make sure that: * You have Qt 4 properly and fully installed (including tools and headers, not just library) * "qmake" command runs Qt 4's qmake, not some other version (you'll have to type full path to qmake otherwise). To install compiled shared library, just type: $ make install By default, it installs in /usr/local, but you may change it using $ qmake PREFIX=/wherever/you/want/to/install You do not have to compile and install QuaZIP to use it. You can just (and sometimes it may be the best way) add QuaZIP's source files to your project and use them. See doc/html or, if you do not have a browser, quazip/*.h and quazip/doc/* files for the more detailed documentation. For Windows, it's essentially the same, but you may have to adjust settings for different environments. If you want to include QuaZIP sources directly in your project or if you want to use QuaZIP compiled as a static library using "qmake CONFIG+=statliclib", you have to define the QUAZIP_STATIC macro, otherwise you're likely to run into problems as QuaZIP symbols will be marked as dllimported. Copyright notice: Copyright (C) 2005-2012 Sergey A. Tachenov This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA See COPYING file for the full LGPL text. Original ZIP package is copyrighted by Gilles Vollant, see quazip/(un)zip.h files for details, basically it's zlib license.