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     1 7z ANSI-C Decoder 4.48
       
     2 ----------------------
       
     3 
       
     4 7z ANSI-C Decoder 4.48 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov
       
     5 
       
     6 7z ANSI-C provides 7z/LZMA decoding.
       
     7 7z ANSI-C version is simplified version ported from C++ code.
       
     8 
       
     9 LZMA is default and general compression method of 7z format
       
    10 in 7-Zip compression program (www.7-zip.org). LZMA provides high 
       
    11 compression ratio and very fast decompression.
       
    12 
       
    13 
       
    14 LICENSE
       
    15 -------
       
    16 
       
    17 Read lzma.txt for information about license.
       
    18 
       
    19 
       
    20 Files
       
    21 ---------------------
       
    22 
       
    23 7zAlloc.*    - Allocate and Free
       
    24 7zBuffer.*   - Buffer structure
       
    25 7zCrc.*      - CRC32 code
       
    26 7zDecode.*   - Low level memory->memory decoding
       
    27 7zExtract.*  - High level stream->memory decoding
       
    28 7zHeader.*   - .7z format constants
       
    29 7zIn.*       - .7z archive opening
       
    30 7zItem.*     - .7z structures
       
    31 7zMain.c     - Test application
       
    32 7zMethodID.* - MethodID structure
       
    33 7zTypes.h    - Base types and constants
       
    34 
       
    35 
       
    36 How To Use
       
    37 ----------
       
    38 
       
    39 You must download 7-Zip program from www.7-zip.org.
       
    40 
       
    41 You can create .7z archive with 7z.exe or 7za.exe:
       
    42 
       
    43   7za.exe a archive.7z *.htm -r -mx -m0fb=255
       
    44 
       
    45 If you have big number of files in archive, and you need fast extracting, 
       
    46 you can use partly-solid archives:
       
    47   
       
    48   7za.exe a archive.7z *.htm -ms=512K -r -mx -m0fb=255 -m0d=512K
       
    49 
       
    50 In that example 7-Zip will use 512KB solid blocks. So it needs to decompress only 
       
    51 512KB for extracting one file from such archive.
       
    52 
       
    53 
       
    54 Limitations of current version of 7z ANSI-C Decoder
       
    55 ---------------------------------------------------
       
    56 
       
    57  - It reads only "FileName", "Size", "LastWriteTime" and "CRC" information for each file in archive.
       
    58  - It supports only LZMA and Copy (no compression) methods with BCJ or BCJ2 filters.
       
    59  - It converts original UTF-16 Unicode file names to UTF-8 Unicode file names.
       
    60  
       
    61 These limitations will be fixed in future versions.
       
    62 
       
    63 
       
    64 Using 7z ANSI-C Decoder Test application:
       
    65 -----------------------------------------
       
    66 
       
    67 Usage: 7zDec <command> <archive_name>
       
    68 
       
    69 <Command>:
       
    70   e: Extract files from archive
       
    71   l: List contents of archive
       
    72   t: Test integrity of archive
       
    73 
       
    74 Example: 
       
    75 
       
    76   7zDec l archive.7z
       
    77 
       
    78 lists contents of archive.7z
       
    79 
       
    80   7zDec e archive.7z
       
    81 
       
    82 extracts files from archive.7z to current folder.
       
    83 
       
    84 
       
    85 How to use .7z Decoder
       
    86 ----------------------
       
    87 
       
    88 .7z Decoder can be compiled in one of two modes:
       
    89 
       
    90 1) Default mode. In that mode 7z Decoder will read full compressed 
       
    91    block to RAM before decompressing.
       
    92   
       
    93 2) Mode with defined _LZMA_IN_CB. In that mode 7z Decoder can read
       
    94    compressed block by parts. And you can specify desired buffer size. 
       
    95    So memory requirements can be reduced. But decompressing speed will 
       
    96    be 5-10% lower and code size is slightly larger.
       
    97 
       
    98    
       
    99 Memory allocation
       
   100 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       
   101 
       
   102 7z Decoder uses two memory pools:
       
   103 1) Temporary pool
       
   104 2) Main pool
       
   105 Such scheme can allow you to avoid fragmentation of allocated blocks.
       
   106 
       
   107 Steps for using 7z decoder
       
   108 --------------------------
       
   109 
       
   110 Use code at 7zMain.c as example.
       
   111 
       
   112 1) Declare variables:
       
   113   inStream                     /* implements ISzInStream interface */
       
   114   CArchiveDatabaseEx db;       /* 7z archive database structure */
       
   115   ISzAlloc allocImp;           /* memory functions for main pool */
       
   116   ISzAlloc allocTempImp;       /* memory functions for temporary pool */
       
   117 
       
   118 2) call InitCrcTable(); function to initialize CRC structures.
       
   119 
       
   120 3) call SzArDbExInit(&db); function to initialize db structures.
       
   121 
       
   122 4) call SzArchiveOpen(inStream, &db, &allocMain, &allocTemp) to open archive
       
   123 
       
   124 This function opens archive "inStream" and reads headers to "db".
       
   125 All items in "db" will be allocated with "allocMain" functions.
       
   126 SzArchiveOpen function allocates and frees temporary structures by "allocTemp" functions.
       
   127 
       
   128 5) List items or Extract items
       
   129 
       
   130   Listing code:
       
   131   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       
   132     {
       
   133       UInt32 i;
       
   134       for (i = 0; i < db.Database.NumFiles; i++)
       
   135       {
       
   136         CFileItem *f = db.Database.Files + i;
       
   137         printf("%10d  %s\n", (int)f->Size, f->Name);
       
   138       }
       
   139     }
       
   140 
       
   141   Extracting code:
       
   142   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       
   143 
       
   144   SZ_RESULT SzExtract(
       
   145     ISzInStream *inStream, 
       
   146     CArchiveDatabaseEx *db,
       
   147     UInt32 fileIndex,         /* index of file */
       
   148     UInt32 *blockIndex,       /* index of solid block */
       
   149     Byte **outBuffer,         /* pointer to pointer to output buffer (allocated with allocMain) */
       
   150     size_t *outBufferSize,    /* buffer size for output buffer */
       
   151     size_t *offset,           /* offset of stream for required file in *outBuffer */
       
   152     size_t *outSizeProcessed, /* size of file in *outBuffer */
       
   153     ISzAlloc *allocMain,
       
   154     ISzAlloc *allocTemp);
       
   155 
       
   156   If you need to decompress more than one file, you can send these values from previous call:
       
   157     blockIndex, 
       
   158     outBuffer, 
       
   159     outBufferSize,
       
   160   You can consider "outBuffer" as cache of solid block. If your archive is solid, 
       
   161   it will increase decompression speed.
       
   162 
       
   163   After decompressing you must free "outBuffer":
       
   164   allocImp.Free(outBuffer);
       
   165 
       
   166 6) call SzArDbExFree(&db, allocImp.Free) to free allocated items in "db".
       
   167 
       
   168 
       
   169 
       
   170 
       
   171 Memory requirements for .7z decoding 
       
   172 ------------------------------------
       
   173 
       
   174 Memory usage for Archive opening:
       
   175   - Temporary pool:
       
   176      - Memory for compressed .7z headers (if _LZMA_IN_CB is not defined)
       
   177      - Memory for uncompressed .7z headers
       
   178      - some other temporary blocks
       
   179   - Main pool:
       
   180      - Memory for database: 
       
   181        Estimated size of one file structures in solid archive:
       
   182          - Size (4 or 8 Bytes)
       
   183          - CRC32 (4 bytes)
       
   184          - LastWriteTime (8 bytes)
       
   185          - Some file information (4 bytes)
       
   186          - File Name (variable length) + pointer + allocation structures
       
   187 
       
   188 Memory usage for archive Decompressing:
       
   189   - Temporary pool:
       
   190      - Memory for compressed solid block (if _LZMA_IN_CB is not defined)
       
   191      - Memory for LZMA decompressing structures
       
   192   - Main pool:
       
   193      - Memory for decompressed solid block
       
   194      - Memory for temprorary buffers, if BCJ2 fileter is used. Usually these 
       
   195        temprorary buffers can be about 15% of solid block size. 
       
   196   
       
   197 
       
   198 If _LZMA_IN_CB is defined, 7z Decoder will not allocate memory for 
       
   199 compressed blocks. Instead of this, you must allocate buffer with desired 
       
   200 size before calling 7z Decoder. Use 7zMain.c as example.
       
   201 
       
   202 
       
   203 
       
   204 EXIT codes
       
   205 -----------
       
   206 
       
   207 7z Decoder functions can return one of the following codes:
       
   208 
       
   209 #define SZ_OK (0)
       
   210 #define SZE_DATA_ERROR (1)
       
   211 #define SZE_OUTOFMEMORY (2)
       
   212 #define SZE_CRC_ERROR (3)
       
   213 
       
   214 #define SZE_NOTIMPL (4)
       
   215 #define SZE_FAIL (5)
       
   216 
       
   217 #define SZE_ARCHIVE_ERROR (6)
       
   218 
       
   219 
       
   220 
       
   221 LZMA Defines
       
   222 ------------
       
   223 
       
   224 _LZMA_IN_CB       - Use special callback mode for input stream to reduce memory requirements
       
   225 
       
   226 _SZ_FILE_SIZE_32  - define it if you need only support for files smaller than 4 GB
       
   227 _SZ_NO_INT_64     - define it if your compiler doesn't support long long int or __int64.
       
   228 
       
   229 _LZMA_PROB32      - it can increase LZMA decompressing speed on some 32-bit CPUs.
       
   230 
       
   231 _SZ_ALLOC_DEBUG   - define it if you want to debug alloc/free operations to stderr.
       
   232 
       
   233 
       
   234 ---
       
   235 
       
   236 http://www.7-zip.org
       
   237 http://www.7-zip.org/support.html