X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=caf0238df996d1123431f474e1ab98430697be88;hp=a24e1946c413dd10e83e924e378ed33be25e38b7;hb=31cea10bc58ea3067c711c47a266cc68f34459d9;hpb=bde99a849d3e7a479cb04a4e16e405b0c2f022dd diff --git a/README b/README index a24e1946..caf0238d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ WIMLIB -This is wimlib version 1.1.0 (November 2012). wimlib can be used to read, +This is wimlib version 1.2.0 (November 2012). wimlib can be used to read, write, and mount files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM files). These files are normally created by using the `imagex.exe' utility on Windows, but this library provides a free implementation of imagex for UNIX-based systems. @@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ details. image of Windows PE that can be put on a CD or USB drive, or published on a server for PXE booting. See the main page `doc/mkwinpeimg.1' for more details. +There is an additional program, `wimapply', that is not installed by default. +It can be used to build a small executable with the ability to apply a WIM image +from a standalone WIM, without having to build the whole shared library. This +could be useful on Linux boot clients that only need to be able to apply a WIM, +not capture/split/join/append/export/mount a WIM. See `programs/wimapply.c'. + COMPRESSION RATIO wimlib can create XPRESS or LZX compressed WIM archives. As of wimlib v1.0.3, @@ -219,11 +225,10 @@ wimlib has mostly been developed and tested on x86_64 (64-bit) GNU/Linux. It has been tested on x86 (32-bit) GNU/Linux occasionally. -wimlib may work on FreeBSD. However, this is not well tested. If you do not -have libntfs-3g 2011-4-12 or later available, you must configure with ---without-ntfs-3g. Also, GNU coreutils is needed to run the test suite. Before -mounting a WIM you need to load the POSIX message queue module (run `kldload -mqueuefs'). +wimlib may work on FreeBSD and Mac OS X. However, this is not well tested. If +you do not have libntfs-3g 2011-4-12 or later available, you must configure with +--without-ntfs-3g. On FreeBSD, before mounting a WIM you need to load the POSIX +message queue module (run `kldload mqueuefs'). wimlib should work on big endian machines but it has not been tested.