WIMLIB
-This is wimlib version 1.0.0 (September 2012). wimlib can be used to read,
+This is wimlib version 1.0.1 (September 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 implementetion of imagex for UNIX-based
+but this library provides a free implementation of imagex for UNIX-based
systems.
WIM FILES
the LZX documentation is not entirely correct, and the WIM documentation itself
is very incomplete and is of unacceptable quality.
+A WIM file may be either stand-alone or split into multiple parts.
+
WINDOWS PE
A major use for this library is to create customized images of Windows PE, the
* libfuse
Unless configured with --without-fuse, wimlib requires a non-ancient
- version of libfuse to be installed. see above). Most GNU/Linux
- distributions already include this, but make sure you have the libfuse
- package installed (libfuse-dev if your distribution distributes header
- files separately). FUSE also requires a kernel module.
- If the kernel module is available it will automatically be loaded if you
- try to mount a WIM file. For more information see
- http://fuse.sourceforge.net/. FUSE is also available for FreeBSD.
+ version of libfuse to be installed. Most GNU/Linux distributions
+ already include this, but make sure you have the libfuse package
+ installed, and also libfuse-dev if your distribution distributes header
+ files separately. FUSE also requires a kernel module. If the kernel
+ module is available it will automatically be loaded if you try to mount
+ a WIM file. For more information see http://fuse.sourceforge.net/.
+ FUSE is also available for FreeBSD.
* libntfs-3g
Unless configured with --without-ntfs-3g, wimlib requires the library
- and headers for libntfs-3g to be installed. Currently, the version
- dated 2012-1-15 is required because I've cloned some of the code from
- the library.
+ and headers for libntfs-3g version 2011-4-12 or later to be installed.
+ Versions dated 2010-3-6 and earlier do not work because they are missing
+ the header xattrs.h (and the file xattrs.c, which contains functions we
+ need).
* cdrkit (optional)
* mtools (optional)
It has been tested on x86 (32-bit) GNU/Linux occasionally.
-I have tested a previous version of wimlib on FreeBSD and it worked, but this is
-not well tested, especially with the more recent versions of this software.
+wimlib may work on FreeBSD. However, this not well tested. If you do not have
+libntfs-3g 2011-4-12 or later available, you may have to 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'). There is no `fusermount' command on FreeBSD, so you must use
+`umount' rather than `imagex unmount' to unmount a mounted WIM, but this won't
+allow you to commit changes to a read-write mounted WIM...
wimlib should work on big endian machines but it has not been tested.
LICENSE
As of version 1.0.0, wimlib is released under the GNU GPL version 3.0 or later.
-This includes the files in the `programs' directory.
+This includes the files in the `programs' directory as well as the files in the
+`src' directory.
+
+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.
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