-from source, potentially with customizations. Although wimlib's build system is
-designed for UNIX-like systems and is easiest to use on Linux, it's possible to
-build Windows binaries on Windows using Cygwin with MinGW. To do this, follow
-the instructions below. For the sake of example, I'll assume you are building a
-64-bit version of wimlib v1.13.0.
-
-Run the Cygwin installer, available from https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe.
-When you get to the package selection screen, choose the following additional
-packages from category "Devel":
-
- - make
- - mingw64-x86_64-binutils
- - mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++
- - mingw64-x86_64-libxml2
- - mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads
- - pkg-config
-
-Download wimlib's source code from https://wimlib.net/downloads/wimlib-1.13.0.tar.gz.
-
-Start a Cygwin terminal and run the following commands:
-
- cd /cygdrive/c/Users/example/Downloads # (or wherever you downloaded the source to)
- tar xf wimlib-1.13.0.tar.gz
- cd wimlib-1.13.0
- ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
- make
-
-If successful, the new binaries "libwim-15.dll" and "wimlib-imagex.exe" will
-have been produced in the .libs directory.
-
-By default the binaries are built with debug symbols. If desired, you can use
-x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip to strip them.
-
-libwim-15.dll will be linked to several other DLLs which you will need as well:
-
- - libwinpthread-1.dll
- - libxml2-2.dll, which also requires:
- - iconv.dll
- - liblzma-5.dll
- - zlib1.dll
-
-These DLLs can be found in "C:\cygwin\usr\x86_64-w64-mingw32\sys-root\mingw\bin"
-and must be placed alongside libwim-15.dll for it to run portably. But see
-below for an alternative.
-
-Building 32-bit binaries is very similar, but you'll need to replace "x86_64"
-with "i686" everywhere in the above instructions, and libwim-15.dll will also
-depend on libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll. Note that you can build both 32-bit and 64-bit
-binaries from the same Cygwin installation, provided that you install both the
-mingw64-i686-* and mingw64-x86_64-* packages; and you can run the Cygwin setup
-program to install more packages at any time.
-
-In the official binary releases from wimlib.net, libwim-15.dll's dependent
-libraries are linked in statically rather than dynamically, so it does not
-depend on any DLLs other than standard Windows DLLs. If you want to do this,
-install the following additional Cygwin packages:
-
- - p7zip (category "Archive")
- - autoconf (category "Devel")
- - automake (category "Devel")
- - git (category "Devel")
- - libtool (category "Devel")
- - nasm (category "Devel")
- - ghostscript (category "Graphics")
- - wget (category "Web")
-
-Then, in a Cygwin terminal, clone the git repository, checkout the wimlib
-version you want (if you don't want to build the latest master branch),
-bootstrap the repository, and run the Windows release script: