/**
* @mainpage
*
- * This is the documentation for the library interface of wimlib 1.7.2, a C
+ * This is the documentation for the library interface of wimlib 1.7.4, a C
* library for creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the
* Windows Imaging Format. This documentation is intended for developers only.
* If you have installed wimlib and want to know how to use the @b wimlib-imagex
#define WIMLIB_MINOR_VERSION 7
/** Patch version of the library (for example, the 5 in 1.2.5). */
-#define WIMLIB_PATCH_VERSION 2
+#define WIMLIB_PATCH_VERSION 4
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
*
* If using wimlib_create_compressor() to create an XPRESS compressor
* directly, the @p max_block_size parameter may be any positive value
- * up to <c>2^16</c>.
+ * up to and including <c>2^16</c>.
*/
WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS = 1,
*
* If using wimlib_create_compressor() to create an LZX compressor
* directly, the @p max_block_size parameter may be any positive value
- * up to <c>2^21</c>.
+ * up to and including <c>2^21</c>.
*/
WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX = 2,
* later. Also, chunk sizes larger than <c>2^26</c> are not compatible
* with the Microsoft implementation.
*
- * wimlib's LZMS compressor is currently faster but will usually not
- * compress as much as the implementation in Microsoft's WIMGAPI
- * (Windows 8.1).
+ * wimlib's LZMS compressor will, with the default settings, usually
+ * produce a better compression ratio, and work more quickly, than the
+ * implementation in Microsoft's WIMGAPI (as of Windows 8.1). There is
+ * limited support for non-default compression levels, but compression
+ * will be noticably faster if you choose a level < 35.
*
* If using wimlib_create_compressor() to create an LZMS compressor
* directly, the @p max_block_size parameter may be any positive value
- * up to <c>2^31 - 2</c>.
+ * up to and including <c>2^30</c>.
*/
WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZMS = 3,
};
};
/** Information about a unique stream in the WIM file. (A stream is the same
- * thing as a "resource", except in the case of packed resources.) */
+ * thing as a "resource", except in the case of solid resources.) */
struct wimlib_resource_entry {
/** Uncompressed size of the stream in bytes. */
uint64_t uncompressed_size;
/** Offset, in bytes, of this stream from the start of the WIM file. Or
* if @p packed is 1, then this is actually the offset at which this
- * stream begins in the uncompressed contents of the packed resource.
+ * stream begins in the uncompressed contents of the solid resource.
*/
uint64_t offset;
* */
uint32_t is_missing : 1;
- /** 1 if this stream is located in a packed resource which may contain
+ /** 1 if this stream is located in a solid resource which may contain
* other streams (all compressed together) as well. */
uint32_t packed : 1;
uint32_t reserved_flags : 26;
- /** If @p packed is 1, then this will specify the offset of the packed
+ /** If @p packed is 1, then this will specify the offset of the solid
* resource in the WIM. */
uint64_t raw_resource_offset_in_wim;
/** If @p packed is 1, then this will specify the compressed size of the
- * packed resource in the WIM. */
+ * solid resource in the WIM. */
uint64_t raw_resource_compressed_size;
uint64_t reserved[2];
* wimlib_set_default_compression_level() can be called beforehand to set an
* even higher compression level than the default.
*
- * If the WIM contains solid blocks, then ::WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_RECOMPRESS can be
- * used in combination with ::WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_PACK_STREAMS to prevent any
- * solid blocks from being re-used. Otherwise, solid blocks are re-used
- * somewhat more liberally than normal compressed blocks.
+ * If the WIM contains solid resources, then ::WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_RECOMPRESS can
+ * be used in combination with ::WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SOLID to prevent any solid
+ * resources from being re-used. Otherwise, solid resources are re-used
+ * somewhat more liberally than normal compressed resources.
*
* ::WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_RECOMPRESS does <b>not</b> cause recompression of streams
* that would not otherwise be written. For example, a call to
#define WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_RETAIN_GUID 0x00000800
/**
- * When writing streams in the resulting WIM file, pack multiple streams into a
- * single compressed resource instead of compressing them independently. This
+ * When writing streams in the resulting WIM file, combine multiple streams into
+ * a single compressed resource instead of compressing them independently. This
* is also known as creating a "solid archive". This tends to produce a better
* compression ratio at the cost of much slower random access.
*
* ::WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_RECOMPRESS to force the entire WIM file be rebuilt with
* all streams recompressed in solid mode.
*
- * Currently, new solid blocks will, by default, be written using LZMS
- * compression with 32 MiB (33554432 byte) chunks. Use
+ * Currently, new solid resources will, by default, be written using LZMS
+ * compression with 64 MiB (67108864 byte) chunks. Use
* wimlib_set_output_pack_compression_type() and/or
* wimlib_set_output_pack_chunk_size() to change this. This is independent of
* the WIM's main compression type and chunk size; you can have a WIM that
* nominally uses LZX compression and 32768 byte chunks but actually contains
- * LZMS-compressed solid blocks, for example. However, if including solid
+ * LZMS-compressed solid resources, for example. However, if including solid
* blocks, I suggest that you set the WIM's main compression type to LZMS as
* well, either by creating the WIM with
* ::wimlib_create_new_wim(::WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZMS, ...) or by calling
* ::wimlib_set_output_compression_type(..., ::WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZMS).
*
* This flag will be set by default when writing or overwriting a WIM file that
- * either already contains packed streams, or has had packed streams exported
+ * either already contains solid resources, or has had solid resources exported
* into it and the WIM's main compression type is LZMS.
*/
-#define WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_PACK_STREAMS 0x00001000
+#define WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SOLID 0x00001000
+
+/**
+ * Deprecated: this is the old name for ::WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SOLID, retained for
+ * source compatibility.
+ */
+#define WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_PACK_STREAMS WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SOLID
/**
* Send ::WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_DONE_WITH_FILE messages while writing the WIM
*/
#define WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SEND_DONE_WITH_FILE_MESSAGES 0x00002000
+/**
+ * If using solid compression, do not sort the streams ("files") to compress by
+ * estimated content similarily. This flag only has an effect if
+ * ::WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SOLID is also specified.
+ */
+#define WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_NO_SOLID_SORT 0x00004000
+
/** @} */
/** @addtogroup G_general
* @{ */
* bits contain the patch version.
*
* In other words, the returned value is equal to <code>((WIMLIB_MAJOR_VERSION
- * << 22) | (WIMLIB_MINOR_VERSION << 10) | WIMLIB_PATCH_VERSION)</code> for the
+ * << 20) | (WIMLIB_MINOR_VERSION << 10) | WIMLIB_PATCH_VERSION)</code> for the
* corresponding header file.
*/
extern uint32_t
* @ingroup G_writing_and_overwriting_wims
*
* Similar to wimlib_set_output_chunk_size(), but set the chunk size for writing
- * packed streams (solid blocks).
+ * solid resources.
*/
extern int
wimlib_set_output_pack_chunk_size(WIMStruct *wim, uint32_t chunk_size);
* @ingroup G_writing_and_overwriting_wims
*
* Similar to wimlib_set_output_compression_type(), but set the compression type
- * for writing packed streams (solid blocks).
+ * for writing solid resources.
*/
extern int
wimlib_set_output_pack_compression_type(WIMStruct *wim, int ctype);
size_t max_block_size,
unsigned int compression_level);
+#define WIMLIB_COMPRESSOR_FLAG_DESTRUCTIVE 0x80000000
+
/**
* Allocate a compressor for the specified compression type using the specified
* parameters. This function is part of wimlib's compression API; it is not
* The compression level does not affect the format of the compressed data.
* Therefore, it is a compressor-only parameter and does not need to be
* passed to the decompressor.
+ * <br/>
+ * Since wimlib v1.8.0, this parameter can be OR-ed with the flag
+ * ::WIMLIB_COMPRESSOR_FLAG_DESTRUCTIVE. This creates the compressor in a
+ * mode where it is allowed to modify the input buffer. Specifically, in
+ * this mode, if compression succeeds, the input buffer may have been
+ * modified, whereas if compression does not succeed the input buffer still
+ * may have been written to but will have been restored exactly to its
+ * original state. This mode is designed to save some memory when using
+ * large buffer sizes.
* @param compressor_ret
* A location into which to return the pointer to the allocated compressor.
* The allocated compressor can be used for any number of calls to
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