NAME
Alien::Win32::LZMA - Install and make available lzma.exe
DESCRIPTION
On Windows (unlike on Unix systems) the primary mechanism for accessing LZMA functionality is via the 7-Zip desktop application.
Alien::Win32::LZMA is a simple Alien module which embeds a copy of the lzma.exe command line utility for use in situations where the memory-only compression and decompression provided by the current generation of modules is not sufficient.
The version of lzma.exe provided by this module is taken from the LZMA SDK 4.65 at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma465.tar.bz2.
FUNCTIONS
lzma_exe
The lzma_exe function returns the location of the installed lzma.exe command line application as a string.
lzma_version
The lzma_version function runs lzma.exe and finds the version of the application. It should match the version of this module.
lzma_compress
lzma_compress('file', 'file.lz') or die('Failed to compress');The lzma_compress function invokes lzma.exe to compress one file into another file.
Any additional params to lzma_compress will be passed through to the underlying command line call as options.
Returns true if the invocation returns without error.
lzma_decompress
lzma_decompress('file','file.lz') or die('Failed to decompress');The lzma_decompress function invokes lzma.exe to decompress an LZMA file into another file.
Any additional params to lzma_compress will be passed through to the underlying command line call as options.
Returns true if the invocation returns without error.
SUPPORT
Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Alien-Win32-LZMA
For other issues, contact the author.
AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2009 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
The LZMA SDK is written and placed in the public domain by Igor Pavlov.