libzip
brew install libzipC library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives
License: BSD-3-Clause
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/libzip.json
Formula code: libzip.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 1.12.1 |
Depends on:
| xz | 5.8.4 | General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio |
| zstd | 1.5.7 | Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.4.5 | Cross-platform make |
Uses from macOS: zip (test), bzip2
Binaries:
zipcmp,
zipmerge,
ziptool
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 375,706 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 16,028,515 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 30,985 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 12.1× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-10T00:48:26Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-11 to 2026-11-10. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 30,974 | 55,596 | 236,916 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 11 | 18 | 45 |
| Installs on Request | 5,659 | 9,788 | 28,240 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 11 | 17 | 33 |
| Build Errors | 14 |