https://luth.io/tags/7zip/ Recent content in 7zip on Luther Monson Hugo en Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:10:00 -0700 https://luth.io/blog/2026/07/spc-windows-archive-extraction/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:10:00 -0700 https://luth.io/blog/2026/07/spc-windows-archive-extraction/ <p>One of the first things that broke when I started building PHP on Windows with <a href="https://github.com/crazywhalecc/static-php-cli">static-php-cli</a> (SPC) wasn&rsquo;t PHP at all. It was unpacking the source tarballs. libxml2, xz and a couple of others would die partway through extraction with:</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>ERROR: The pipe has been ended. </code></pre><p>Over the last few months I&rsquo;ve &ldquo;fixed&rdquo; this two different ways, and the maintainers fixed it a third. It&rsquo;s a small piece of code. But it&rsquo;s a good example of how much Linux assumption hides in a single shell pipeline, so here&rsquo;s the whole thing.</p>