xz/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt

Building XZ Utils with Microsoft Visual Studio
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Introduction
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    liblzma got MSVC support in XZ Utils 5.2.0, and the xz, xzdec,
    lzmadec, and lzmainfo command line tools in XZ Utils 5.6.0.

    Visual Studio 2015 and later are supported.

        NOTE: The *.exe files are linked against GNU getopt_long from
        the "lib" directory. That code is under the GNU LGPLv2.1
        and thus the matching source code must be provided when
        distributing the *.exe files. The simplest way to comply with
        the license requirements is to distribute the matching XZ Utils
        source package alongside the *.exe files.


Building
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    Use CMake to generate build files for MSVC. Visual Studio project
    files are no longer provided (XZ Utils 5.4.x were the last versions
    to include the project files).

    NOTE: GCC and Clang compatible inline assembly isn't supported by
    the MSVC compiler. Using clang-cl under MSVC should make inline
    assembly work (untested).


Notes
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    liblzma API headers declare the functions with __declspec(dllimport)
    by default. To avoid this when using static liblzma from your code,
    #define LZMA_API_STATIC before #including <lzma.h>.

    MSVC gives a bunch of compiler warnings. Some warnings are specific
    to 32-bit or 64-bit build and some appear for both builds. These
    are known and shouldn't be a problem. Some of them will probably
    be fixed in the future.