“Untar” file on iPhone

Question

I\'m writing an iPhone app which downloads a tar-gzipped file from a Webserver, then needs to unarchive this file so that it can be copied into the app\'s Documents folder.<

Answer 1

Here is a light untar library for iOS : https://github.com/mhausherr/Light-Untar-for-iOS

Complete blog post about the solution : http://blog.octo.com/en/untar-on-ios-the-pragmatic-way/

Hope this helps, Vincent

Answer 2

I took a different approach by building libarchive and bz2lib as a static library for iOS. You can find it here:

http://github.com/davepeck/iOS-libarchive/

Answer 3

This blog post should help you: http://blog.hawkey.org/?p=332

EDIT: Google cache version of the same page which actually links to a forum post here which links to a Google Code project here, containing some code which implements unzipping on iOS.