requires this to run.
* The documentation, including this file, the generic README.txt, and
- PDF documentation for wimlib-imagex in the 'doc' directory.
+ PDF documentation for wimlib-imagex in the 'doc' folder.
* License files for all software included. These are all free software
licenses. COPYING.txt is the main license, and it refers to
COPYING.GPLv3.txt and COPYING.LGPLv3.txt. The other licenses are for
third-party software included in the library.
- * Development files in the 'devel' directory. These are only needed if you
+ * Development files in the 'devel' folder. These are only needed if you
are developing C or C++ applications that use wimlib.
Note that there are separate ZIP files for 32-bit (i686) and 64-bit (x86_64)
interactively enter commands. However, note that wimlib-imagex is largely just
a command-line front-end for wimlib, and it's possible to use wimlib's API in
other front-ends or applications. Currently there is no official graphical user
-interface available for wimlib or wimlib-imagex. However, an unofficial, beta,
+interface available for wimlib or wimlib-imagex. However, an unofficial
Windows-only graphical user interface that provides a thin wrapper around
wimlib-imagex can be downloaded at
http://reboot.pro/files/file/485-wimlib-imagex-command-line-compiler/.
BUILDING FROM SOURCE
As with other open source software, advanced users may choose to build wimlib
-from source, potentially with customizations. Although wimlib's build system is
-designed for UNIX-like systems and is easiest to use on Linux, it's possible to
-build Windows binaries on Windows using Cygwin with MinGW. To do this, follow
-the instructions below. For the sake of example, I'll assume you are building a
-64-bit version of wimlib v1.13.6.
-
-Run the Cygwin installer, available from https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe.
-When you get to the package selection screen, choose the following additional
-packages from category "Devel":
-
- - make
- - mingw64-x86_64-binutils
- - mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++
- - pkg-config
-
-Download wimlib's source code from https://wimlib.net/downloads/wimlib-1.13.6.tar.gz.
-
-Start a Cygwin terminal and run the following commands:
-
- cd /cygdrive/c/Users/example/Downloads # (or wherever you downloaded the source to)
- tar xf wimlib-1.13.6.tar.gz
- cd wimlib-1.13.6
- ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
- make
-
-If successful, the new binaries "libwim-15.dll" and "wimlib-imagex.exe" will
-have been produced in the .libs directory.
-
-By default the binaries are built with debug symbols. If desired, you can use
-x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip to strip them.
-
-Building 32-bit binaries is very similar, but you'll need to replace "x86_64"
-with "i686" everywhere in the above instructions, and libwim-15.dll will also
-depend on libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll. Note that you can build both 32-bit and 64-bit
-binaries from the same Cygwin installation, provided that you install both the
-mingw64-i686-* and mingw64-x86_64-* packages; and you can run the Cygwin setup
-program to install more packages at any time.
-
-In the official binary releases from wimlib.net, libwim-15.dll's dependent
-libraries are linked in statically rather than dynamically, so it does not
-depend on any DLLs other than standard Windows DLLs. If you want to do this,
-install the following additional Cygwin packages:
-
- - p7zip (category "Archive")
- - autoconf (category "Devel")
- - automake (category "Devel")
- - git (category "Devel")
- - libtool (category "Devel")
- - ghostscript (category "Graphics")
- - wget (category "Web")
-
-Then, in a Cygwin terminal, clone the git repository, checkout the wimlib
-version you want (if you don't want to build the latest master branch),
-bootstrap the repository, and run the Windows release script:
+from source, potentially with customizations. Currently, wimlib depends on
+MinGW-w64 for its Windows support; Visual Studio is not supported. The Windows
+binaries can be cross-compiled on Linux, or built on Windows using MSYS2 or
+Cygwin. The following instructions show the MSYS2 method.
+First, install MSYS2 by running the installer from https://www.msys2.org/.
+
+Then, open an MSYS2 shell and run the following command:
+
+ pacman -Syu --noconfirm
+
+After that, open an MSYS2 shell again and run the following commands:
+
+ pacman -Syu --noconfirm git
git clone git://wimlib.net/wimlib
+
+Note: By default the git repository will be on the "master" branch, which is the
+latest development snapshot. Optionally, you can check out a specific version,
+e.g. 'cd wimlib && git checkout v1.14.0'. For old versions, please refer to the
+documentation for that version, as things may have changed. Also, it is
+possible to use a release tarball (e.g. wimlib-1.14.0.tar.gz) instead of the git
+repository; however, the make-windows-release script will not be available in
+that case and you will need to handle more things yourself.
+
+To build 64-bit (x86_64) binaries, close the MSYS2 shell you have open, then
+open "MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit" from the Start menu and run the following commands:
+
cd wimlib
- git checkout v1.13.6 # example only; omit if building the master branch
- ./bootstrap
- ./tools/make-windows-release x86_64
-
-The release script will build wimlib, then do some final tasks and bundle the
-resulting files up into a ZIP archive. If successful you'll end up with a file
-like "wimlib-1.13.6-windows-x86_64-bin.zip", just like the official releases.
-For 32-bit binaries just use "i686" instead of "x86_64".
+ tools/make-windows-release --install-msys2-packages --no-docs --no-zip
+
+The output will be in a folder named like "wimlib-1.14.0-windows-x86_64-bin".
+
+For 32-bit (i686) binaries, do the same but use "MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit" instead.
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