7z-bin v0.0.8

7z-bin

7z-bin contains full featured 7-Zip precompiled binaries, which means 7z.exe and 7zz.

As this package will contain 7z.exe, 7z.dll and 7zz, it means its size is larger than any other packages containing 7za, please refer to the Defferences section below before using, to consider to choose this package or other packages like 7zip-bin within smaller size 7za binaries.

Environment Variables

• USE_SYSTEM_7Z: set to use 7z from current system instead of the binaries in this packages.
• SZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL: set the compression level for 7z archive. The default value is 9.

Package Version

The changelogs of 7-Zip, please refer to 7-Zip ChangeLog / History and also 7-Zip website.

Differences between 7zz and 7za

These information are based on 7-Zip website and readme.txt file in 7-Zip distribution files.

7z.exe / 7zz

7z.exe (with 7z.dll 7-Zip engine module) and 7zz are the command line version of 7-Zip, having full features of 7-Zip.

Supported formats:

• Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM.
• Unpacking only: APFS, AR, ARJ, Base64, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, XAR, Z and ZSTD.

7za.exe / 7za

7za.exe and 7za (a = alone) are standalone version of 7-Zip, supporting only 7z, xz, lzma, cab, zip, gzip, bzip2 and tar formats, and it doesn't use external modules.

Supported formats:

• Packing / unpacking: 7z, xz, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
• Unpacking only: lzma, CAB, ZSTD.

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License.

This repository was forked from 7zip-bin, licensed under the MIT License.

This repository contains 7-Zip binaries from 7-Zip, licensed under 7-Zip License for use and distribution