Can't get Ionic.Zip plugin to compile in iOS build

(Background: I hate XCode and view it as a necessary but extremely annoying stumbling block in between Unity and iPhones.)

I have a project for which I need to unzip an archive. I’m using this plugin. This project works in the editor.

Upon first building, it complained about not having ZipArchive.h. Following instructions on the page, I used File → Add Files to Unity-iPhone in XCode to import the “ZipArchive” folder, in which is the .h file I need.

Tried to build again and this happens:


And now I officially have no clue what’s going on. Not a single one of those error messages means anything to me.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Those errors tell me that the zip plugin is old and does not even support ARC. ARC was introduced by Apple years ago. You could try deleting the [ release] lines of code, it might just work.

I have used this plugin with great success (especially on iOS):