Unzip a zip file using zlib

Question

I have an archive.zip which contains two crypted ".txt" files. I would like to decompress the archive in order to retrieve those 2 files.

Here's what I've done so far:

FILE *FileIn = fopen("./archive.zip", "rb");
if (FileIn)
    printf("file opened\n");
else
    printf("unable to open file\n");

fseek(FileIn, 0, SEEK_END);
unsigned long FileInSize = ftell(FileIn);
printf("size of input compressed file : %u\n", FileInSize);

void *CompDataBuff = malloc(FileInSize);
void *UnCompDataBuff = NULL;

int fd = open ("archive.zip", O_RDONLY);
CompDataBuff = mmap(NULL, FileInSize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
printf("buffer read : %s\n", (char *)CompDataBuff);

uLongf UnCompSize = (FileInSize * 11/10 + 12);
UnCompDataBuff = malloc(UnCompSize);

int ret_uncp ;

ret_uncp = uncompress((Bytef*)UnCompDataBuff, &UnCompSize, (const Bytef*)CompDataBuff,FileInSize);
printf("size of uncompressed data : %u\n", UnCompSize);

if (ret_uncp == Z_OK){
    printf("uncompression ok\n");
    printf("uncompressed data : %s\n",(char *)UnCompDataBuff);
    }
if (ret_uncp == Z_MEM_ERROR)
    printf("uncompression memory error\n");
if (ret_uncp == Z_BUF_ERROR)
    printf("uncompression buffer error\n");
if (ret_uncp == Z_DATA_ERROR)
    printf("uncompression data error\n");

I always get "uncompression data error" and I don't know why. And then I would like to know how to retrieve the 2 files with my data uncompressed.

Answer 1

As mentioned, zlib only handles compression, it doesn't archive. When you want to zip or unzip what you are doing is extracting files from an archive which happens to be in a zip format (there are other formats like rar, 7zip and so on)

If you want to create zips or unzip files you have to handle the zip format and minizip is a nice library, robust and has been there for quite a long time.

There is a contrib for minizip https://github.com/nmoinvaz/minizip with examples on how to use it. Is not that hard, and you can check the minizip.c and miniunz.c for code on how to use it. (Minizip uses zlib for the compression)

Also i ended up building a library that wraps minizip and adds a bunch of nice features to it and makes it easier to use and more object oriented. Lets you do things like zip entire folders, streams, vectors, etc. As well as doing everything entirely in memory.

Repo with examples here: https://github.com/sebastiandev/zipper

Beta pre-release: https://github.com/sebastiandev/zipper/releases/

Code looks something like:

Zipper zipper("ziptest.zip");
zipper.add("somefile.txt");
zipper.add("myFolder");
zipper.close();