I’m trying to use the Zip plugin to extract a file, running a simple test in the Solar2D Simulator on Windows. However, the plugin throws an error, which I don’t understand because there’s nothing obvious that should be causing it.
I’m using a very basic test case, essentially the same code shown in the documentation. Besides failing, the errorMessage field doesn’t provide any useful information either, it returns an empty string.
Can anyone confirm whether they’re currently using this plugin and if it’s working for them? Or is it possible that it simply doesn’t work in the Solar2D Simulator?
I have an app that uses “zip.uncompress” in the Zip plugin. It is working on my Simulator on PC windows (~twice a month debug & rebuilt since Nov2025), and on Android devices (almost daily usage). The largest zipped file so far is ~80-Mbytes.
I hope this helps. PS> However, my simulator is rather old (2025.3718).
Thanks for the reply. I’m not sure if this could be related to the fact that I’m using the latest Solar2D build. In my case, it’s a very simple implementation: I have a ZIP file with a simple name (test.zip ) located in the project’s root folder, and I’m trying to extract it into system.DocumentsDirectory .
However, the operation fails and event.errorMessage comes back as an empty string, which makes troubleshooting even harder since I don’t get any clue about what’s actually causing the error.
I found the solution: the project name had a unicode character in it. After removing it, the plugin worked perfectly.
I guess it’s time to finally learn my lesson and stop putting special characters in project names. I know they’ve caused issues for years, yet I still keep doing it. 