From: Eric Biggers Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:03:04 +0000 (-0800) Subject: README.WINDOWS: document building with release script X-Git-Tag: v1.11.0~57 X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=commitdiff_plain;h=eb2146511aefe0b084a4888d786c7224d8e9276a README.WINDOWS: document building with release script --- diff --git a/README.WINDOWS b/README.WINDOWS index 9d57fbc7..11ee8c66 100644 --- a/README.WINDOWS +++ b/README.WINDOWS @@ -129,10 +129,8 @@ libwim-15.dll will be linked to several other DLLs which you will need as well: - zlib1.dll These DLLs can be found in "C:\cygwin\usr\x86_64-w64-mingw32\sys-root\mingw\bin" -and must be placed alongside libwim-15.dll for it to run portably. (In the -official binary release, these third-party libraries are linked to libwim-15.dll -statically rather than dynamically --- or are unnecessary, in the case of -libxml2's dependencies.) +and must be placed alongside libwim-15.dll for it to run portably. But see +below for an alternative. 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 @@ -140,3 +138,33 @@ 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 "Archiver") + - autoconf (category "Devel") + - automake (category "Devel") + - git (category "Devel") + - libtool (category "Devel") + - nasm (category "Devel") + - pkg-config (category "Devel") + - ghostscript (category "Graphics") + - wget (category "Web") + +Then, in a Cygwin terminal, clone the git repository, checkout the wimlib +version you want, bootstrap the repository, and run the Windows release script: + + git clone git://wimlib.net/wimlib + cd wimlib + git checkout v1.10.0 + ./bootstrap + ./tools/make-windows-release x86_64 + +The release script will download and build libxml2 and winpthreads as static +libraries, then 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-1.10.0-windows-x86_64-bin.zip", just like the official releases. For +32-bit binaries just use "i686" instead of "x86_64".