- It relies on the Cygwin UNIX-compatibility layer. You do not, however, need
to have the Cygwin distribution installed to run it, as I have posted a ZIP
- file on SourceForge that contains the build of wimlib along with the DLLs
- needed for it to run. Please note that these DLLs are free and open source
- software; see http://www.cygwin.com/ for more details.
+ file on SourceForge that contains the build of wimlib and "imagex" along with
+ the DLLs needed for it to run. Please note that these DLLs are free and open
+ source software; see http://www.cygwin.com/ for more details.
-- Mounting WIM files is not supported. On Windows there is no equivalent of
- FUSE, which I used to get mounting working on Linux and BSD, so I would have
- to program a "Filesystem Filter" driver with Microsoft's eccentric API.
+- Mounting WIM files is not supported.
- wimlib's API is not compatible with Microsoft's WIMGAPI, although they offer
some of the same functionality.
-So to be clear:
+So, in terms of the "imagex" program:
"imagex capture", "imagex append", and "imagex apply" will work on Windows and
have the added advantage of saving and restoring alternate data streams,