ffi-libarchive

An ffi binding to libarchive.

This library provides ruby-bindings to the well-known libarchive library. It should be interface-compatible to libarchive-ruby and libarchive-ruby-swig gems.

Why another binding? Because I often work on workstations without development libraries of libarchive installed. An FFI-based gem allows to use the library without the hassle of compiling native extensions.

Note that this is not completely true for this library. Two methods, Entry::copy_stat and Entry::copy_lstat require a small native extension through ffi-inliner, though this does not require development files of libarchive but only of libc.

Features

  • Compatible interface to libarchive-ruby Entry::copy_lstat and
  • Entry::copy_stat require ffi-inliner because of the platform dependence of stat() and lstat() functions of libc

Examples

require 'ffi-libarchive'

Requirements

  • ffi >= 1.0.0
  • ffi-inliner for Entry::copy_lstat and Entry::copy_stat

Install

  • gem install ffi-libarchive

Author

Original author: Frank Fischer

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Frank Fischer

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