Lha compressor for Linux?

What do people use to create lha files on Linux systems and cygwin? Lhasa only decompresses lha files; it can't compress.

I'm converting the build script for ZitaFTP Server to a bash script so that I can automate builds. Being able to create the final *.lha is a stumbling block right now.

Hans

@Hans

Not sure where I got this version from but it compiles on my Ubuntu system and does appear to work more or less fine:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cjl6ze37nagbksp/lha-114i-unix.7z?dl=0

Generally I use the AmigaOS lha command just to be safe when I need an lha archive for OS4Depot or Aminet (and 7zip in other cases) so I can't say that I've tested it very thoroughly.

@salass00
It might be the one from
https://osdn.net/projects/lha/
http://lha.osdn.jp/
https://github.com/jca02266/lha

@hans
There is also jlha-utils that might be helpful
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/jlha-utils

Most Linux distributions use the lha 1.14i version. On Manjaro there is also version 1.17 from 2002, which can be found at
http://web.archive.org/web/2012110801 ... -it.ac.jp/~ishii/lhaunix/
Probably, this happens because the source of 1.17 is not publicly available.

Check the following page for all the versions in different distributions
https://repology.org/project/lha/packages

@salass00 & walkero

Thanks. I was hoping there was a standard archiver, but building my own is still acceptable. Jlha isn't an option, because I want the script to work out-of-the box on all platforms (incl. AmigaOS).

Another alternative would be to use a different format. Unarc can handle other formats...

Hans

@salass00

Quote:
I just tried this version, but it's missing the -r option (collect files recursively). So, I'd need to vary the command line depending on platform.

It's very tempting to switch to zip format to sidestep all this...

Hans

@Hans
We surely use lha packer on linux to pack dopus5 archives (include directories and subdirectories and all stuff). See there https://sourceforge.net/p/dopus5allami ... ree/trunk/source/makefile

Relevant part :



So amiga's "lha a -a -r -q" are the same as on linux "lha ao5q" , and my logs says that we use that one:

http://sourceforge.jp/projects/lha/do ... -1.14i-ac20040929.tar.gz/

Probably "-r" just weren't need it with that linux packer, as it taked for granted as default ?

@Hans

On ubuntu

sudo apt install lhasa

gives you lha

cheers

billy

@billyfish
"lhasa" for unpacking only, not for packing

@Hans

Use the Java based lha package:
apt install jlha-utils libjlha-java

@kas1e

Thanks. I've adapted your makefile code. Switching to zip wouldn't have solved anything, because I'd probably still need different commands to archive everything.

Hans