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

Question

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) ?

Answer 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.

Answer 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

Answer 3

Here:

https://www.willus.com/archive/zip64/

(64 bit Zip 3.1c02 BETA)

Answer 4

You can install cygwin, which comes with a recent zip.exe

# c:\cygwin64\bin\zip --version
Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP.
Currently maintained by E. Gordon.  Please send bug reports to
the authors using the web page at www.info-zip.org; see README for details.

Latest sources and executables are at ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip,
as of above date; see http://www.info-zip.org/ for other sites.

Compiled with gcc 11.3.0 for Unix (Cygwin) on Jun 16 2022.

Answer 5

From Microsoft Technet:

There is no zip.exe in Windows 7 and as far as I know there has never been a zip.exe in any version of Windows[...]

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According to what you wrote, that batch script uses a "zip.exe" file someway deployed on that system, maybe part of a file compression and archiving program. There's no such a command available in a Windows installation.

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Additionally, when I used everything (a program that searches every single file on your computer) to serach for zip.exe, nothing came up.