As some may have noticed already, the RAR author has released a new version of unrar.dll which unfortunately only works on Windows 7 and newer. In the current version 11.51 of Total Commander, I'm using two unrar dlls:
1. unrar.dll/unrar64.dll 7.01 which is the official release by the RAR author and works on Windows XP and newer
2. unrar9x.dll 6.24 which I compiled myself and which works on Windows 95 and newer
Unfortunately I couldn't get unrar.dll 7.10 to work on Windows 9x because the sources use a lot of modern C++ constructs which the compiler for Windows 9x doesn't support. I managed to compile it to work on windows 2000, XP and newer, though. I also managed to unpack RAR archives with a modified tc7z dll on Windows 95 and newer.
This brings me to two dilemmas of what is more important:
Include the official unrar dlls which only work on Windows 7 or newer, or unclude self-compiled dlls?
Include the old unrar9x.dll which is outdated and may have security holes, but is only needed for older Windows versions, or use tc7z dll for RAR files on older Windows versions?
1. unrar.dll/unrar64.dll 7.01 which is the official release by the RAR author and works on Windows XP and newer
2. unrar9x.dll 6.24 which I compiled myself and which works on Windows 95 and newer
Unfortunately I couldn't get unrar.dll 7.10 to work on Windows 9x because the sources use a lot of modern C++ constructs which the compiler for Windows 9x doesn't support. I managed to compile it to work on windows 2000, XP and newer, though. I also managed to unpack RAR archives with a modified tc7z dll on Windows 95 and newer.
This brings me to two dilemmas of what is more important:
Include the official unrar dlls which only work on Windows 7 or newer, or unclude self-compiled dlls?
Include the old unrar9x.dll which is outdated and may have security holes, but is only needed for older Windows versions, or use tc7z dll for RAR files on older Windows versions?
Statistics: Posted by ghisler(Author) — 2025-03-04, 08:40 UTC