libarchive headers for D

[Lester L. Martin II]

Does this work on Windows.  Would be nice to use for my D Installer project if it does and if it does that means we will soon have a linux port available if anyone will build the full D source when it is created.

Anders Bergh Wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just converted the libarchive[1] headers earlier today. libarchive
> is a library that can read/write several formats, such as .tar. I
> think the website will explain it better than I ever could so check it
> out.
> 
> You can find my port at my Mercurial repository[2]. Using the
> Mercurial web interface you can download the latest version as
> .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip.
> 
> The ported headers use Tango for some types, such as int64_t, off_t,
> etc. If you want to use this with Phobos you'll have to alias them
> yourself or import the proper modules.
> 
> I haven't really tested this yet, but it should work. To compile /
> install it you can use DSSS by running "dsss build" then "dsss
> install". Net install will come later.
> 
> Anders
> 
> [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/
> [2] http://hg.dronehive.net/libarchive-d/