I'm currently having trouble translating this Perl "complete extractor" example to one that extracts to a directory specified (and if the directory specified doesn't exist, create it)

Here's the example from Archive::Libarchive::XS (which is translated from a Libarchive wiki page on Github):

use strict;
use warnings;
use Archive::Libarchive::XS ':all';

# this is a translation to Perl for this:
# https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/Examples#wiki-A_Comple
+te_Extractor
 
my $filename = shift @ARGV;
 
unless(defined $filename)
{
  warn "reading archive from standard in";
}
 
my $r;
 
my $flags = ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_TIME
          | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_PERM
          | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_ACL
          | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_FFLAGS;

my $a = archive_read_new();
archive_read_support_filter_all($a);
archive_read_support_format_all($a);
my $ext = archive_write_disk_new();
archive_write_disk_set_options($ext, $flags);
archive_write_disk_set_standard_lookup($ext);
 
$r = archive_read_open_filename($a, $filename, 10240);
if($r != ARCHIVE_OK)
{
  die "error opening $filename: ", archive_error_string($a);
}
 
while(1)
{
  $r = archive_read_next_header($a, my $entry);
  if($r == ARCHIVE_EOF)
  {
    last;
  }
  if($r != ARCHIVE_OK)
  {
    print archive_error_string($a), "\n";
  }
  if($r < ARCHIVE_WARN)
  {
    exit 1;
  }
  $r = archive_write_header($ext, $entry);
  if($r != ARCHIVE_OK)
  {
    print archive_error_string($ext), "\n";
  }
  elsif(archive_entry_size($entry) > 0)
  {
    copy_data($a, $ext);
  }
}
 
archive_read_close($a);
archive_read_free($a);
archive_write_close($ext);
archive_write_free($ext);
 
sub copy_data
{
  my($ar, $aw) = @_;
  my $r;
  while(1)
  {
    $r = archive_read_data_block($ar, my $buff, my $offset);
    if($r == ARCHIVE_EOF)
    {
      return;
    }
    if($r != ARCHIVE_OK)
    {
      die archive_error_string($ar), "\n";
    }
    $r = archive_write_data_block($aw, $buff, $offset);
    if($r != ARCHIVE_OK)
    {
      die archive_error_string($aw), "\n";
    }
  }
}
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The old Archive::Extract::Libarchive has the functionality I'm looking for written in XS code, and doesn't use Archive::Libarchive::XS (as far as I know):

The problem is I'm not familiar with XS at all (nor really C--I'm fairly new to programming in general), and am unsure of how to "map" the XS code to Archive::Libarchive::XS:

#include "EXTERN.h"
#include "perl.h"
#include "XSUB.h"
#include <archive.h>
#include <archive_entry.h>
#include "ppport.h"
 
int DEBUG = 0;
 
typedef struct archive* Archive__Peek__Libarchive;
 
struct archive* _open_file(const char * filename) {
    struct archive *a;
    int r;
 
    a = archive_read_new();
    archive_read_support_compression_all(a);
    archive_read_support_format_all(a);
 
    if ((r = archive_read_open_file(a, filename, 10240))) {
        croak(archive_error_string(a));
    }
    return a;
}
 
void _close_file(struct archive* a) {
    archive_read_close(a);
    archive_read_finish(a);
}
 
static int
_copy_data(struct archive *ar, struct archive *aw)
{
    int r;
    const void *buff;
    size_t size;
    off_t offset;

    for (;;) {
        r = archive_read_data_block(ar, &buff, &size, &offset);
        if (r == ARCHIVE_EOF)
                return (ARCHIVE_OK);
        if (r != ARCHIVE_OK)
                return (r);
        r = archive_write_data_block(aw, buff, size, offset);
        if (r != ARCHIVE_OK) {
                warn("archive_write_data_block()",
                    archive_error_string(aw));
                return (r);
        }
    }
}
     
MODULE = Archive::Extract::Libarchive
PACKAGE = Archive::Extract::Libarchive
 
void _extract(const char * filename, const char * path)
PPCODE:
    struct archive *a;
    struct archive *ext;
    struct archive_entry *entry;
    SV *path_sv;
    int r;
    int flags;
     
    a = _open_file(filename);
 
    flags = ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_TIME | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_PERM | 
    ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_ACL | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_FFLAGS;
    ext = archive_write_disk_new();
    archive_write_disk_set_options(ext, flags);
    archive_write_disk_set_standard_lookup(ext);
 
    for (;;) {
        r = archive_read_next_header(a, &entry);
        if (r == ARCHIVE_EOF)
            break;
        if (r != ARCHIVE_OK)
            croak(archive_error_string(a));
        if (archive_entry_filetype(entry) == AE_IFREG) {
            mXPUSHs(newSVpv(archive_entry_pathname(entry), 0));
        }
 
        path_sv = newSVpv(path, 0);
        sv_catpvs(path_sv, "/");
        sv_catpv(path_sv, archive_entry_pathname(entry));
        archive_entry_set_pathname(entry, SvPV_nolen(path_sv));
        sv_free(path_sv);
         
        r = archive_write_header(ext, entry);
        if (r != ARCHIVE_OK)
            croak(archive_error_string(ext));
        _copy_data(a, ext);
        r = archive_write_finish_entry(ext);
        if (r != ARCHIVE_OK)
            croak(archive_error_string(ext));
    }
    _close_file(a);
    archive_write_close(ext);
    archive_write_finish(ext);
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Note the high similarity between the XS code from Archive::Extract::Libarchive and the Perl code from Archive::Libarchive::XS.

I'm trying to replace my usage of Archive::Extract::Libarchive with Archive::Libarchive::XS (which is favorable for many reasons).

Thanks.

EDIT:

I think I've found the critical part in the XS code that does what I want:

path_sv = newSVpv(path, 0);
        sv_catpvs(path_sv, "/");
        sv_catpv(path_sv, archive_entry_pathname(entry));
        archive_entry_set_pathname(entry, SvPV_nolen(path_sv));
        sv_free(path_sv);
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By the way, if anyone is familiar with libarchive and knows how I can condense the Perl code somewhat to be more concise (using "convenience functions" like archive_read_extract or something like that), let me know. I can't find any extraction code beyond the examples on Github.