using Zlib to create/append to a .zip

[falconmick]

I was following
http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/how-to-use-zlib/
but I reached a problem.. it doesn't allow you to select what kinda of compression it is...

can anyone just help me out and tell me how to create and append to a zip file using preferably zlib, but if theres somthing better out there I will have a look into it (I would love to use physicsFS, but I'm fairly sure that is just an opener)

Thanks guys

[Disch]

zlib only handles the compression aspect of it. The actual .zip file format involves other things like headers for each file, a table of contents, CRCs, etc.

Unless you want to write your own .zip library (quite a bit of work), you're better off using an existing one. AFAIK, PhysicsFS is perfectly capable of both reading and writing zip files.