- WIMLIB
+ WIMLIB
-This is wimlib version 1.0.3 (September 2012). wimlib can be used to read,
+This is wimlib version 1.0.4 (October 2012). wimlib can be used to read,
write, and mount files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM files). These
files are normally created by using the `imagex.exe' utility on Windows,
but this library provides a free implementation of imagex for UNIX-based
PROGRAMS
wimlib provides a public API for other programs to use, but also comes with two
-programs: `imagex' and `mkwinpeimg'.
+programs: `imagex' and `mkwinpeimg'.
`imagex' is intended to be like the imagex.exe program from Windows. `imagex'
can be used to create, extract, and mount WIM files. Both read-only and
Removes all error messages from the library. If left in, they still
have to explicitly turned on with wimlib_set_print_errors() in order to
see them. Also, error codes will still be returned regardless of
- whether error messages are printed or not.
+ whether error messages are printed or not.
If --disable-error-messages is given, wimlib_set_print_errors() will
fail with WIMLIB_ERR_UNSUPPORTED if the action is to turn error messages
have libntfs-3g 2011-4-12 or later available, you must configure with
--without-ntfs-3g. Also, GNU coreutils is needed to run the test suite. Before
mounting a WIM you need to load the POSIX message queue module (run `kldload
-mqueuefs').
+mqueuefs').
wimlib should work on big endian machines but it has not been tested.
There are no plans to port wimlib to Windows since the programming interface on
Windows is very different and Microsoft's imagex.exe is already available.
- REFERENCES
+ REFERENCES
The WIM file format is specified in a document that can be found in the
Microsoft Download Center. There is a similar document that specifies the LZX
lzx-decomp.c, the code to decompress WIM file resources that are compressed
using LZX compression, is originally based on code from the cabextract project
-(http://www.cabextract.org.uk).
+(http://www.cabextract.org.uk).
lzx-comp.c, the code to compress WIM file resources using LZX compression, is
originally based on code written by Matthew Russotto (www.russotto.net/chm/).
An earlier version of wimlib is being used to deploy Windows 7 from the Ultimate
Deployment Appliance. For more information see
-http://www.ultimatedeployment.org/.
+http://www.ultimatedeployment.org/.
-You can see the documentation about Microsoft's version of the imagex program at
+You can see the documentation about Microsoft's version of the imagex program at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749447(v=ws.10).aspx, so you can
see how it compares.
wimlib is independently developed and does not contain any code, data, or files
copyrighted by Microsoft. It is not known to be affected by any patents.
- DISCLAIMER
+ DISCLAIMER
wimlib is experimental. Use Microsoft's `imagex.exe' if you want to make sure
your WIM files are made correctly (but beware: Microsoft's version contains some
-bugs).
+bugs).
Please submit a bug report (to ebiggers3@gmail.com) if you find a bug in wimlib.