Purpose of this project

This project is aimed at reading big archives used in several games from EA games. Those archives can be created/edited by a tool called "FinalBig". The project is used in my apt_player and might be helpful for others for usage.

Build status

How to build

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ cmake --build .

How to use the library

#include <libbig/manager.hpp>
#include <iostream>

int main(int argc,char** argv)
{
    //create a manager instance
    libbig::Manager mngr;
    //add an archive
    mngr.AddBig(argv[1]);
    //load an entry from the archive
    std::string entry = mngr.GetEntry(argv[2]);
    //display content to console
    std::cout << entry << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

Game list

• BIG4 format: BFME, BFME II, BFME II Rise of the Witchking
• BIGF format: Command and Conquer