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Windows: Update the docs.
2015-06-19 17:21:30 +00:00
Building XZ Utils with Microsoft Visual Studio
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Introduction
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MSVC: Remove Visual Studio project files and update INSTALL-MSVC.txt. CMake is now the preferred build file generator when building with MSVC.
2023-09-12 20:53:25 +00:00
liblzma got MSVC support in XZ Utils 5.2.0, and the xz and xzdec
command line tools in XZ Utils 5.6.0.
Note: xz and xzdec depend on the the included GNU getopt
which is licensed under the GNU LGPLv2.1.
Windows: Update the docs.
2015-06-19 17:21:30 +00:00
MSVC 2013 update 2 and later have enough C99 support to build
liblzma from XZ Utils 5.2.0 and later without modifications.
MSVC: Remove Visual Studio project files and update INSTALL-MSVC.txt. CMake is now the preferred build file generator when building with MSVC.
2023-09-12 20:53:25 +00:00
Visual Studio 2015 or later is required to build the command line
tools.
Windows: Update the docs.
2015-06-19 17:21:30 +00:00
Building
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Windows: Update INSTALL-MSVC.txt to recommend CMake over project files.
2023-01-09 22:33:14 +00:00
It is recommended to use CMake to generate build files for MSVC.
MSVC: Remove Visual Studio project files and update INSTALL-MSVC.txt. CMake is now the preferred build file generator when building with MSVC.
2023-09-12 20:53:25 +00:00
Visual Studio project files are no longer provided (XZ Utils 5.4.x
were the last versions to include the project files).
Windows/VS2017: Omit WindowsTargetPlatformVersion from project files. I understood that if a WTPV is specified, it's often wrong because different VS installations have different SDK version installed. Omitting the WTPV tag makes VS2017 default to Windows SDK 8.1 which often is also missing, so in any case people may need to specify the WTPV before building. But some day in the future a missing WTPV tag will start to default to the latest installed SDK which sounds reasonable: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/140294/windowstargetplatformversion-makes-it-impossible-t.html Thanks to "dom".
2019-01-13 15:29:23 +00:00
MSVC: Remove Visual Studio project files and update INSTALL-MSVC.txt. CMake is now the preferred build file generator when building with MSVC.
2023-09-12 20:53:25 +00:00
CMake-based build includes tests for liblzma but not for the
command line tools.
Windows: Update the docs.
2015-06-19 17:21:30 +00:00
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>.
Windows: Update INSTALL-MSVC.txt to recommend CMake over project files.
2023-01-09 22:33:14 +00:00
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.