opening a rar file by c

Question

I have to write code in C to extract a password protected rar file in windows. I don\'t have any clue about how to do this. can anybody suggest me something or provide a sam

Answer 1

In addition to what karlphilip's suggestions there's also a couple of potentialliy interesting looking resources at http://www.rarlabs.com/rar_add.htm.

In particular I am thinking UnRAR.dll and UnRAR source may be relevant. I can't really check it out at the momment though.