TGZ library for Windows

[Belisarius]

I'm writing a Windows app that needs to create a TGZ file. Upon starting it, I figured of course there'd be an open-source, native implementation of a library for this well-known format. After all, nearly every Windows unzipper on the face of the planet supports TGZ.

Well, after several hours of searching, apart from a single project that requires me to deal with their whole GNU-compatability framework, I'm stumped.

Any suggestions? I'm using MSVC and am definitely not working in a Cygwin-like environment.

[redhead]

Here are a few:
http://www.feep.net/libtar/
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/
http://www.zlib.net/
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm

TGZ is nothing more than a tar archive compressed with zlib.

[teknomage1]

Right, to reinforce what redhead is saying - .tgz is shorthand for .tar.gz so you can support it by supporting both of the the above.

[Belisarius]

Well, I realize that (I do most of my programming in Unix), but I looked around and couldn't find a whole lot that supported the actual "tar" part. Zlib, as near as I could tell, only handled compression, not archiving. I did run across the gnuwin32 packages, but I was hoping to find something a bit more straightforward than a whole compatibility package.

That feep.net link is the only one I hadn't run across before, and looks to be the best shot right now.

[teknomage1]

If libtar doesn't work out, the tar format seems pretty straightforward (just a lot of bit twiddling code). There'a a description of the indivdual structs at in the gnu tar manual.