This is a forum for 7Zip. I plan to create a simple tool to search recursively in directories to find .7z and open it then open each file contained to search a string.

The simple words would be “searching inside 7z archive” BUT, this is the hard part, using mingw as the compiler. I avoid to use Microsoft Visual C++ for some subjective reasons.

Check this forum and see that Igor Pavlov give up with mingw:
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RE: 7z.dll Implementation Problems
By: Igor Pavlov (ipavlovProject Admin) – 2008-11-26 05:39

I can’t help with mingw.

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Hmmm…..