(Delphi DLL) Add a Common Root Directory to ZIP Entries Using PathPrefix

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This example demonstrates how to use the PathPrefix property to prepend a common directory path to all entries added to a ZIP archive.

The PathPrefix value is prepended to the stored ZIP paths for subsequently added entries.

This is useful when:

• Creating ZIP archives that extract beneath a single root directory
• Packaging applications or projects into a named top-level folder
• Avoiding extraction directly into the current directory
• Organizing ZIP contents beneath a common parent directory

Suppose the local filesystem contains:

c:/MyProject/src/main.cpp
c:/MyProject/src/util.cpp
c:/MyProject/docs/readme.txt

And suppose the following code is executed:

zip.PathPrefix = "MyProject/";

Then the ZIP archive will contain:

MyProject/src/main.cpp
MyProject/src/util.cpp
MyProject/docs/readme.txt

Without a PathPrefix, the ZIP archive would instead contain:

src/main.cpp
src/util.cpp
docs/readme.txt

The PathPrefix is applied only to entries added after the property is set.

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uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, Zip;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Boolean;
zip: HCkZip;
recurse: Boolean;

begin
success := False;

zip := CkZip_Create();

// Create a new ZIP archive.
success := CkZip_NewZip(zip,'MyProject.zip');
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkZip__lastErrorText(zip));
    Exit;
  end;

// Prepend "MyProject/" to all subsequently added ZIP entries.
// 
// This causes all files to extract beneath a top-level
// directory named "MyProject".
CkZip_putPathPrefix(zip,'MyProject/');

// Recursively add project files.
// 
// Because saveExtraPath = False, the stored ZIP paths
// will normally begin with:
// 
//     src/
//     docs/
// 
// But because PathPrefix = "MyProject/",
// the final ZIP paths become:
// 
//     MyProject/src/
//     MyProject/docs/
// 
recurse := True;
success := CkZip_AppendFiles(zip,'c:/MyProject/*',recurse);

if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkZip__lastErrorText(zip));
    Exit;
  end;

// Write the ZIP archive and close it.
success := CkZip_WriteZipAndClose(zip);
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkZip__lastErrorText(zip));
    Exit;
  end;

Memo1.Lines.Add('ZIP archive created successfully.');

CkZip_Dispose(zip);

end;