INTRODUCTION
-This is wimlib version 1.13.5 (December 2021). wimlib is a C library for
+This is wimlib version 1.14.0-BETA2 (March 2023). wimlib is a C library for
creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging
Format (WIM files). wimlib and its command-line frontend 'wimlib-imagex'
provide a free and cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's WIMGAPI, ImageX,
downloaded the Windows binary distribution of wimlib and wimlib-imagex then all
dependencies were already included and this section is irrelevant.
-* libxml2 (required)
- This is a commonly used free library to read and write XML documents.
- Almost all Linux distributions should include this; however, you may
- need to install the header files, which might be in a package named
- "libxml2-dev" or similar. For more information see http://xmlsoft.org/.
-
* libfuse (optional but recommended)
Unless configured --without-fuse, wimlib requires a non-ancient version
of libfuse. Most Linux distributions already include this, but make
headers for libntfs-3g to be installed. The minimum required version is
2011-4-12, but newer versions contain important bug fixes.
-* OpenSSL / libcrypto (optional)
- wimlib can use the SHA-1 message digest implementation from libcrypto
- (usually provided by OpenSSL) instead of compiling in yet another SHA-1
- implementation.
-
* cdrkit (optional)
* mtools (optional)
* syslinux (optional)
The default is --with-fuse when building for Linux, and --without-fuse
otherwise.
---without-libcrypto
- Build in functions for SHA-1 rather than using external SHA-1 functions
- from libcrypto (usually provided by OpenSSL).
-
- The default is to use libcrypto if it is found on your system.
-
PORTABILITY
wimlib works on both UNIX-like systems (Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, etc.) and
-Windows (XP and later).
+Windows (Vista and later).
As much code as possible is shared among all supported platforms, but there
necessarily are some differences in what features are supported on each platform
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.
-
-On UNIX-like systems, if you do not want wimlib to be dynamically linked with
-libcrypto (OpenSSL), configure with --without-libcrypto. This replaces the SHA1
-implementation with built-in code and there will be no difference in
-functionality.
-
-Note: copyright years may be listed using range notation, e.g., 2012-2016,
-indicating that every year in the range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that
-would otherwise be listed individually.