X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=cd91f1626cddf9f7f0fb7c9de2e28846cd0a8b15;hb=05fa75f81bfc8048c2321b044b587b17e5225886;hp=8ee586f6704f8e798155f24559e6bab04a7073b9;hpb=8a135e86b937d1acb9112b37a906562c2099899f;p=wimlib diff --git a/README b/README index 8ee586f6..cd91f162 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 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, @@ -122,12 +122,6 @@ with it, when building for a UNIX-like system from source. If you have 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 @@ -142,11 +136,6 @@ dependencies were already included and this section is irrelevant. 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) @@ -181,16 +170,10 @@ This section documents the most important options that may be passed to the 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 @@ -271,12 +254,3 @@ posted to https://wimlib.net/forums/. 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.