Packer plugins developer guide

The pages of this Wiki are based on the "Packers plugin writer guide" help file v2.1, partly written by Jiri Barton. The latest version of this file and some packer plugins (part of them with source in C or Delphi) should be available on www.ghisler.com[1], addons section.

The informations in these pages refers to the version 6.54 of TotalCmd and should be upward compatible with latest 6.X versions.

Copyright © 2000-2003 by Christian Ghisler, C. Ghisler & Co. All Rights Reserved.

Overview

What's new in v2.1

Mandatory functions :

• OpenArchive
• ReadHeader
• ProcessFile
• CloseArchive
• SetChangeVolProc
• SetProcessDataProc

Optional functions :

• PackFiles
• DeleteFiles
• GetPackerCaps
• ConfigurePacker
• StartMemPack
• PackToMem
• DoneMemPack
• CanYouHandleThisFile
• PackSetDefaultParams

Structures :

• tHeaderData
• tOpenArchiveData
• PackDefaultParamStruct

Callbacks :

• tProcessDataProc
• tChangeVolProc

Error Codes

Header files

• for CPP
• for Delphi
• for Euphoria

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