Unpacking 7z archives on Cygwin64

[Adam Dinwoodie]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:46:54PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> On Cygwin64, is there an utility to unpack .7z archives?

No.  The Cygwin utility for 7z archives is p7zip, but that's one of the
packages that hasn't been ported to 64-bit Cygwin yet.

Compare:
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=7z&arch=x86
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=7z&arch=x86_64

While you wait for an official 64-bit p7zip package to be produced, the
options I can see are:

- Swap to 32-bit Cygwin
- Obtain the p7zip source code and build it for 64-bit Cygwin yourself
- Use native Windows 7z tools

Adam

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