Introduction

This is a very simple library to write some tar file.

I wrote this library to store some image flow from a webcam 10 year ago.

It can interest some people.

Interface

The interface is only four funtions:

• int libmytar_newArchive(char *archiveName, t_libmytar_tar_struct *tar_struct, t_libmytar_archive_mode mode);

• int libmytar_closeArchive(t_libmytar_tar_struct *);

• int libmytar_newFile(t_libmytar_tar_struct *tar_struct, char *name);

• int libmytar_addData(t_libmytar_tar_struct tar_struct, int size, void ptr);

libmytar_newArchive

This function create a new archive file. The file has the name archiveName. The function will populate the structure tar_struct. The argument mode was for futur usage to read the archive. It should be set to WRITE.

libmytar_closeArchive

Close the archive.

libmytar_newFile

Create a new file in the archive with the name name.

libmytar_addData

Add data to the last added file. the size is the size of the object and the ptr is a pointer on it.

Compilation and installation

This library use autotool. To compile it you have to do the following steps:

• autoreconf –install –> This will generate the needed files.
• automake –> This will generate some pre-makefile
• ./configure
• make
• make install

See the INSTALL file for more details.