zziplib (a lightweight zip library) zziplib provides read access on zip archives and unpacked data. It features an additional simplified API following the standard Posix API for file access. The zziplib library is intentionally lightweight, it offers the ability to easily extract data from files archived in a single zip file. Applications can bundle files into a single zip archive and access them. The implementation is based only on the (free) subset of compression with the zlib algorithm which is actually used by the zip/unzip tools.