C++ - Win32 API for Extracting .zip

Question

I've been needing to extract a .zip file programmaticly and was wondering if there was an API that Win32 has to extract these types of files. I seen there is a Compress/Decompress but I have noticed that's for compressing the raw bytes instead of actually extracting it to a folder on the desktop.

Answer 1

There is no native Win32 API for working with .zip files (or any other archive type). You have to use a third-party library (there are plenty of open-source and commercial libraries available), or read the ZIP spec and write your own logic from scratch.