Thanks! But I guess I wasn't clear enough. I can already include all the files, in whatever directory; what I'm trying to do is include the directory entry itself, like a native zip program would do.

For example, here's the output of Zip 3.0: 

C:\Temp\ztest>zip -r test2.zip WEB-INF
  adding: WEB-INF/ (208 bytes security) (stored 0%) <-- dir, not file
  adding: WEB-INF/deploy/ (208 bytes security) (stored 0%) <-- ditto
  adding: WEB-INF/deploy/client/ (208 bytes security) (stored 0%)
  adding: WEB-INF/deploy/client/rpcPolicy/ (208 bytes security) (store
+d 0%)
  adding: WEB-INF/deploy/client/rpcPolicy/manifest.txt (208 bytes secu
+rity) (deflated 4%) <-- first actual file

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So it's stored the directory entities and information (including modification times) as well as the files. That's what I'm trying to emulate.

I've done some more digging around, and I'm beginning to think that IO::Compress::Zip might just not do what I want. Also, I didn't think that Archive::Zip was in the core libraries, but it looks like it has been since v 5.12 or so, maybe. (On the other hand, I have to work with some very old systems.)

I might not even need this ability for what I want to do, but the closer I can come to a Real Zip File on output, the better.

In reply to Re^2: Getting IO::Compress::Zip to include directory entries (on Windows) by hilitai
in thread Getting IO::Compress::Zip to include directory entries (on Windows) by hilitai

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