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".
The 32-bit build is now for i686 or newer because the
prebuilt MinGW-w64 toolchains include i686 code in the
executables even if one uses -march=i486.
The build script builds 32-bit SSE2 enabled version too.
Run-time detection of SSE2 support would be nice (on any OS)
but it's not implemented in XZ Utils yet.
Now liblzma only uses "mythread" functions and types
which are defined in mythread.h matching the desired
threading method.
Before Windows Vista, there is no direct equivalent to
pthread condition variables. Since this package doesn't
use pthread_cond_broadcast(), pre-Vista threading can
still be kept quite simple. The pre-Vista code doesn't
use anything that wasn't already available in Windows 95,
so the binaries should run even on Windows 95 if someone
happens to care.
Spot candidates by running these commands:
git ls-files |xargs perl -0777 -n \
-e 'while (/\b(then?|[iao]n|i[fst]|but|f?or|at|and|[dt]o)\s+\1\b/gims)' \
-e '{$n=($` =~ tr/\n/\n/ + 1); ($v=$&)=~s/\n/\\n/g; print "$ARGV:$n:$v\n"}'
Thanks to Jim Meyering for the original patch.
The example programs by Daniel Mealha Cabrita were included
in the git repository, but I had forgot to add them to
Makefile.am. Thus, they didn't get included in the source
package at all by "make dist".
This is simply for licensing reasons. The 64-bit version
will be built with MinGW-w64 anyway (at least for now),
so using it also for 32-bit build allows using the same
copyright notice about the MinGW-w64/w32 runtime.
Note that using MinGW would require a copyright notice too,
because its runtime is not in the public domain either even
though MinGW's home page claims that it is public domain.
See <http://marc.info/?l=mingw-users&m=126489506214078>.
The old Makefile + config.h was deleted, because it
becomes outdated too easily and building with the
Autotools based build system works fine even on Windows.
windows/build.sh hasn't got much testing, but it should
work to build 32-bit x86 and x86-64 versions of XZ Utils
using MSYS, MinGW or MinGW-w32, and MinGW-w64.
windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt describes what packages are
needed and how to install them.
windows/README-Windows.txt is a readme file for the binary
package that build.sh hopefully builds.
There are no instructions about using Autotools for now,
so those using a git snapshot may want to run
"autoreconf -fi && ./configure && make mydist" on a UN*X
box and then copy the resulting .tar.gz to a Windows.
Thanks to Dan Shechter for the patch.
It is likely that windows/Makefile will be removed
completely, because Autotols based build nowadays
works well with both 32-bit and 64-bit MinGW (I
just need to update the docs).
Antoine Cœur
Lasse Collin
Julien Marrec