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- INTRODUCTION
-
-wimlib 1.3.0 has added experimental support for Windows builds. The support has
-been further improved in later versions. The Windows build consists of both the
-"wimlib" library (which can be built as a DLL) and the "wimlib-imagex"
-executable.
-
-The Windows build of wimlib uses native Win32 calls when appropriate to handle
-alternate data streams, security descriptors, reparse points, encrypted files,
-compressed files, and sparse files.
-
-Mounting WIM files is not supported on Windows. Also please note that wimlib's
-"wimlib-imagex" is NOT intended to be command-line compatible with Microsoft's
-"imagex", and wimlib is NOT intended to be API compatible with Microsoft's
-WIMGAPI. They are similar, though.
-
- NOTES ABOUT IMAGEX
-
-"wimlib-imagex capture", "wimlib-imagex append", and "wimlib-imagex apply" will
-work on Windows and have the added advantage of saving and restoring
-NTFS-specific data, such as alternate data streams, security descriptors, and
-reparse points.
-
-"wimlib-imagex delete", "wimlib-imagex dir", "wimlib-imagex export",
-"wimlib-imagex info", "wimlib-imagex join", "wimlib-imagex optimize", and
-"wimlib-imagex split" are all portable and should work the same way on Windows
-as on UNIX.
-
-"wimlib-imagex mount", "wimlib-imagex mountrw", and "wimlib-imagex unmount" will
-NOT work on Windows.
-
-So on Windows, why would you want to use wimlib's ImageX instead of Microsoft's?
-Well, here are a few reasons:
-
-- wimlib offers fast multithreaded compression, so making WIM images can be much
- faster.
-
-- Whenever possible I have included improved documentation and informational
- output compared to Microsoft's software.
-
-- wimlib can correctly save and restore some combinations of data that
- Microsoft's ImageX runs into bugs on --- for example, uncompressed files in
- compressed directories, or files with alternate data streams and multiple
- links.
-
-- wimlib is free software, so you can modify and/or audit the source code.
-
-See the man page for 'wimlib-imagex' for more information.
-
- BUILDING ON WINDOWS
-
-Actually doing the Windows build is a bit tricky, and I'd recommend you download
-precompiled binaries from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wimlib/files/ instead.
-I did it using MinGW-w64 on a Linux host, with the following configuration
-command:
-
-$ ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32
-
-after having installed the required libraries:
-
-* mingw-w64-gettext
-* mingw-w64-libiconv
-* mingw-w64-libxml2
-* mingw-w64-winpthreads
-* mingw-w64-zlib
-
-Note: zlib and gettext are only necessary when required by the build of libxml2.
-
-Building wimlib using Cygwin is not supported. I was trying this for a while,
-but I ran into some issues with mixing native Win32 functions and
-Cygwin-provided functions, so I made it possible to do a native Win32 build
-instead.
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