Libarchive command line tools for 64-bit Windows systems

Command line tools provided in 'libarchive-3.8.8-win64.zip' are 'bsdtar.exe',
'bsdcpio.exe' and 'bsdcat.exe' and their manpage documents in man and pdf
format.  Especially 'bsdtar.exe' may serve as modern replacement as archiving
tool for zip.exe/unzip.exe. Bsdtar reads and writes many archiving formats
including zip and 7zip.

Essential contents of libarchive-3.8.8-win64.zip:

libarchive\README.txt (this file)
libarchive\sha256sum.txt (checksums for *.exe, *.dll and .a files)
libarchive\bin\bsdtar.exe (command line app)
libarchive\bin\bsdcpio.exe (command line app)
libarchive\bin\bsdcat.exe (command line app)
libarchive\bin\*.dll (required libraries)
libarchive\share\man\man1\bsdcat.1
libarchive\share\man\man1\bsdcat.1.pdf
libarchive\share\man\man1\bsdcpio.1
libarchive\share\man\man1\bsdcpio.1.pdf
libarchive\share\man\man1\bsdtar.1
libarchive\share\man\man1\bsdtar.1.pdf

Recommendation for installation: 
  
  * unzip the archive to 'c:\' (or another base directory), this will result
    in the directory tree:

    c:\libarchive\README.txt
    ...
    c:\libarchive\bin\bsdtar.exe
    ...
    c:\libarchive\share\man\man\bsdtar.1.pdf

  * add c:\libarchive\bin to the list of directories assigned to the PATH
    environment variable of the Windows system

The tools were compiled with the gcc in the UCRT64 environment of
www.msys2.org

Source code can be obtained from: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive

All files in this archive are made available without any warranty. No support
is provided for this compiled software.

Volker Kiefel
2026-07-27

