How to read ISO-9660's contents, and extract it?

[geraneum]

Hi...
I'm a newbie programmer. I'm making a program by Visual C++. In a part of program I want it to read an ISO image file's contents and extract a specific file from it.
Please guide me and show me the way. How can I do it? Is a plugin needed? If yes, where can I find it.

Thanks alot

[cilu]

As far as I know there is no API in Windows SDK or Visual C++ to do that. Of course you could take the documentation and write your own ISO file system reader/writer. But the simpler approach would be to use existing SDKs.

7-zip is able to read ISO files, so they must have this already in place. And since this is open software you can use that.

Nero might also have available SDK for this, except that this is a commercial product.

[geraneum]

Thanks Cilu

[OReubens]

Alternatively: Use one of the many tools available to mount an ISO image as a drive letter. You can then read the iso image using normal file/directory functions.

MS even has one for free http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...olpanel_21.exe. Not really supported however, and supposedly only for XP (haven't tried running it on Vista or Windows 7 yet).