Boost:: compressed folder tar.gz format

Question

I search a code to compressed a folder in tar.gz archive format. I work on Linux with Boost.

@Praetorian Sorry to waste all these close votes, but that wasn't a correct duplicate. The OP's merely looking for code how to compress a folder to tar gz, not to find compressed folders in a directory. — πάντα ῥεῖ, Jul 02 '15 at 15:57
@πάνταῥεῖ Oops, you're right. Thanks for catching that. — Praetorian, Jul 02 '15 at 15:59
Unfortunately i can't call system because i work on embedded system&that's not authorized the system() function — Gaetan Griffon Du Bellay, Jul 02 '15 at 16:02
Then you need to find a library that does archiving. AFAIK, there's nothing in Boost that does that. Boost.Serialization can create compressed archives from data, but that's not the same as compressing an existing folder. — Praetorian, Jul 02 '15 at 16:06
@GaetanGriffonDuBellay Lookup the [LZMA library](http://7-zip.org/). We're using it on an embedded system sucessfully. And please don't ask such off-topic questions in the future. — πάντα ῥεῖ, Jul 02 '15 at 16:09
are you sure? I realy thinks boost can create some archives. — Gaetan Griffon Du Bellay, Jul 02 '15 at 16:11
@GaetanGriffonDuBellay He already mentioned boost's serialization library. The doubt is about the input (an existing folder). — πάντα ῥεῖ, Jul 02 '15 at 16:13
i have an existing folder with some files & i need to compress it on tar.gz format so yea, in input i search to send an existing folder. — Gaetan Griffon Du Bellay, Jul 02 '15 at 16:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 02 '15 at 17:55

Boost doesn't have support for tar/zip/... archives.

For that, the most comprehensive library I know is libarchive, which is used by many reputable projects, and supports all of the above.

You would still us e.g. Boost Iostreams compression filters to arrive at a compressed tar in that case.

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