what compression lib to use?

[kenjoe41]

Well you probably went over kill and wrote your back up program in C++ or for whatever reason you needed a compression. I am in need of a light compression lib, preferably header only to use in a C++ project. The real functionality is zipping a folder up that includes all the files.

Any takers?

[Spl3en]

You probably want to take a look at zlib if you want a well documented compression library.

If you need something quick & dirty, use IExpress command line, it is bundled with all recent Windows versions.

[kenjoe41]

Looked at Zlib and it has minizip but it doesn't do the job for me now.
Something light, header only would do the Job with the ability to compress a whole folder; not one of adding a file to it each time.

And cross-platform too.