Where can I find a zip.exe (that works in Windows 7)?

I am trying to get the OpenOffice SDK installed. Its requirements are a number of programs

I ran into a "simple" problem: I can't find a zip program !

Quote:

zip tool (2.3 or higher)

The zip tool is used to create UNO packages. zip is a new requirement to make the SDK independent of a Java SDK. If you do not have these already, you can download them from http://www.info-zip.org. Note: The cygwin zip.exe does not work for the build under the 4NT shell. You have to use the native w32 version.

I have tried - but the link above sends me to downloads of zip binaries that show "frozen"

Anything else I have tried - like 7zip or winrar - is rejected by setup program, which looks for "zip.exe"

Please, where can I find a zip.exe (that works in Windows 7) ?


Solution 1:

If you scrolled down another dozen lines, you would have found the link to their FTP server and their SourceForge page:

ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/infozip/files/

EDIT: Step-by-step to get zip.exe file:

  • Go to FTP server.
  • Click on the system you need. Use "win32" folder for Windows.
  • Click on the version of Zip that you need. Version 3.0 is the latest version. For 64-bit, select the x64 file.
  • Download this zip file.
  • Extract the zip file to the location of your choice.
  • Extract the extracted zip file to the location of your choice.
  • Use zip.exe as needed.

Solution 2:

I know this question is a bit old, but I figured that it would be nice to have a direct copy of zip.exe made available

https://github.com/tisaconundrum2/zip

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