Create a password protected zip file using zlib and ZipEngine
If you want to create a zip file from your C/C++ application the first solution you can consider is to use the famous zlib library. This library is open source, permissive license and can be compiled in different operating systems. It allow to easily manage a zip file but, currently, doesn't have the feature for create zip file password protected. To fill this lack another developer created a small wrapper over zlib allowing to bypass this problem. Let's go to see how to use both these product.