C++ cross-platform zlib simplifer-wrapper

Question

I\'m looking for a wrapper that distills zlib to:

1. OpenZipFile()
2. GetItemInfo(n)
3. UnzipItem(n) // Bonus points for unzipping recursively if ite

Answer 1

GZStream is worth a look. This is a nice cross-platform wrapper round ZLib which extend the STL iostream classes.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream/

What is good about this wrapper over some of the others is that if you're working with very large archives you don't need to load the whole dataset into memory.