Delphi DLL

GZip Create / Extract .gz File

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Demonstrates how to compress a file to create a .gz (GZip) file.

Note: The .gz file format is a compressed file format. It contains a single file. The .gz file format is not an archive format (i.e. it does not contain a collection of files/directories such as with the .zip, .rar, or .tar file formats). GZip is often combined with TAR to create a .tgz (or .tar.gz).

Note: It is possible for a .gz to contain more than one file, but this is very uncommon.

Delphi DLL

uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, Gzip;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Boolean;
gzip: HCkGzip;
xmlStr: PWideChar;

begin
success := False;

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

gzip := CkGzip_Create();

// File-to-file GZip:
// Compress "hamlet.xml" to create "hamlet.xml.gz"
success := CkGzip_CompressFile(gzip,'hamlet.xml','hamlet.xml.gz');
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkGzip__lastErrorText(gzip));
    Exit;
  end;

// File-to-file ungzip
// Decompress "hamlet.xml.gz" to create "hamletOut.xml"
success := CkGzip_UncompressFile(gzip,'hamlet.xml.gz','hamletOut.xml');
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkGzip__lastErrorText(gzip));
    Exit;
  end;

// File-to-string ungzip
// Decompress the contents of a .gz directly to a string variable:
// The 2nd argument indicates the charset of the character
// data after it is decompressed.

xmlStr := CkGzip__uncompressFileToString(gzip,'hamlet.xml.gz','utf-8');
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkGzip__lastErrorText(gzip));
    Exit;
  end;

Memo1.Lines.Add(xmlStr);

// The Chilkat GZip API provides much more flexibility than shown
// here.  See the reference documentation at 
// http://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc for more information

CkGzip_Dispose(gzip);

end;