This is a small, relatively platform independent commandline tool to pack and unpack BIG files, a file format used by many EA games, such as Command & Conquer Generals, Battle for Middle Earth ...
The goal was to create a tool that can be used in batch scripts, to fasten the workflow of packing modded files.
No external files or libraries beyond gcc via MINGW in MSYS2, or just a normal linux, are required to compile or run this tool.
The usage is simple:
big4f x bigfile.big outdir
extracts bigfile.big into outdir. As does using e, instead of x.
big4f 4 indir bigfile.big
packs all files from indir into bigfile.big, with a BIG4 header. Respectively
big4f f indir bigfile.big
does the same, but creates a BIG file with a BIGF header.
I wouldn't advise creating BIG files over 2GB.
Please create an issue if you encounter problems with this tool. I've tested it to the best of my knowledge.
Windows users can download the latest version from the releases page:
/~https://github.com/withmorten/big4f/releases
The Windows version was compiled with:
gcc -O3 -s -static -o big4f.exe main.c bigfile.c util.c
Linux users can just compile it themselves with:
gcc -O3 -static -s -o big4f main.c bigfile.c util.c
Please let me know if there are any problems doing this.
These two sites were used as reference of the BIG file format:
http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/EA_BIG_BIGF_Archive http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/EA_VIV_BIG4