SharpZipLib and Mac redux

I wrote a blog about generating Mac-compatible zip files with SharpZipLib, the conclusion of which was to disable Zip64 compatibility. It was wrong, wrong I tell you.

The better solution is to just set the size of each file you add to the archive. That way you can keep Zip64 compatibility and Mac compatibility.

I owe this solution to the excellent SharpZipLib forum, which covered this problem a while ago, but which I missed when I wrote the earlier blog.

Here’s an updated version of the zip tool in C# that makes Macs happy without annoying anyone else:

using System;
using System.IO;
using ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Core;
using ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip;


public class ZipTool
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        if (args.Length != 2) {
            Console.WriteLine("Usage: ziptool <input file> <output file>");
            return;
        }

        using (ZipOutputStream zipout = new ZipOutputStream(File.Create(args[1]))) {
            byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
            string filename = args[0];

            zipout.SetLevel(9);

            //  Set the size before adding it to the archive, to make your
            //  Mac-loving hippy friends happy.
            ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(Path.GetFileName(filename));
            FileInfo info = new FileInfo(filename);
            entry.DateTime = info.LastWriteTime;
            entry.Size = info.Length;
            zipout.PutNextEntry(entry);

            using (FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(filename)) {
                int sourceBytes;
                do {
                    sourceBytes = fs.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
                    zipout.Write(buffer, 0, sourceBytes);
                } while (sourceBytes > 0);
            }

            zipout.Finish();
            zipout.Close();
        }
    }
}