diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 4fa8182d..d643693b 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -138,15 +138,18 @@ XZ Utils Installation redistributable .zip or .7z file. See windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt for more information. - It might be possible to build liblzma with a non-GNU toolchain too, - but that will probably require writing a separate makefile. Building + It may be possible to build liblzma with other toolchains too, but + that will probably require writing a separate makefile. Building the command line tools with non-GNU toolchains will be harder than building only liblzma. - Even if liblzma is built with MinGW, the resulting DLL or static - library can be used by other compilers and linkers, including MSVC. - Thus, it shouldn't be a problem to use MinGW to build liblzma even - if you cannot use MinGW to build the rest of your project. See + Starting with XZ Utils 5.2.0, building liblzma (not the whole + XZ Utils) should work with MSVC 2013 update 2 or later using + windows/config.h. No project files or makefiles are included yet, + so the build process isn't as convenient yet as it could be. + + Even if liblzma is built with MinGW(-w64), the resulting DLL can + be used by other compilers and linkers, including MSVC. See windows/README-Windows.txt for details. diff --git a/windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt b/windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt index bb4a4d66..7f0afc20 100644 --- a/windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt +++ b/windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt @@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ Installing the toolchain(s) Some of the following is needed: - MSYS is always needed to use the GNU Autotools based build system. - MinGW builds 32-bit x86 binaries. - - MingW-w32 builds 32-bit x86 executables too. + - 32-bit MinGW-w64 (I call it MingW-w32 here) builds 32-bit x86 + executables too. - MinGW-w64 builds 64-bit x86-64 binaries. So you need to pick between MinGW and MinGW-w32 when building 32-bit version. You don't need both. You might find 7-Zip handy when extracting - some files (especially the .tar.lzma files). The ready-made - build script will also use 7-Zip to create the distributable - .zip and .7z files. + some files. The ready-made build script build.bash will also use + 7-Zip to create the distributable .zip and .7z files. I used the following directory structure but you can use whatever you want. Just note that I will use these in my examples. Each of @@ -50,14 +50,13 @@ Installing MSYS You can download MSYS from MinGW's Sourceforge page: - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ + http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/msys-core/ - It's under "MSYS Base System". I recommend using MSYS 1.0.11 - (MSYS-1.0.11.exe or msysCORE-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz) because that - package includes all the required tools. At least some of the - later versions include only a subset and thus you would need to - download the rest separately. The old version will work fine for - building XZ Utils. + I recommend using MSYS 1.0.11 (MSYS-1.0.11.exe or + msysCORE-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz) because that package includes all the + required tools. At least some of the later versions include only + a subset and thus you would need to download the rest separately. + The old version will work fine for building XZ Utils. You can use either the .exe or .tar.gz package. I prefer .tar.gz, because it can be extracted into any directory and later removed @@ -66,6 +65,8 @@ Installing MSYS Installing MinGW + NOTE: This section may be outdated. I haven't tried MinGW recently. + You can download the required packages from MinGW's Sourceforge page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ @@ -88,21 +89,18 @@ Installing MinGW Installing MinGW-w32 or MinGW-w64 - You can find the latest MinGW-w32 and MinGW-w64 builds here: + I used the packages from Mingw-builds project. With that it is + enough to pick one .7z file for 32-bit and another for 64-bit + toolchain. For XZ Utils 5.2.0 I used the packages from these + directories: - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/ + http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.9.2/threads-win32/sjlj/ - Locate the appropriate files: + http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.9.2/threads-win32/sjlj/ - Toolchains targeting Win32 -> mingw-w32-*-mingw*.zip - Toolchains targeting Win64 -> mingw-w64-*-mingw*.zip - - I don't know what is the most recommended one. I used sezero's - versions from "Personal Builds", since they seemed to have - a stable GCC (judging from the GCC version number only). - - If you will install both MinGW-w32 and MinGW-w64, remember to - extract them into different directories. + If you install both MinGW-w32 and MinGW-w64, remember to extract + them into different directories. build.bash looks at + C:\devel\tools\mingw-w32 and C:\devel\tools\mingw-w64 by default. Building XZ Utils