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diff --git a/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt b/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt index 2fdd1e7..ba483fb 100644 --- a/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt +++ b/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt @@ -5,41 +5,33 @@ Building XZ Utils with Microsoft Visual Studio Introduction ------------ + 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. + + 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. + MSVC 2013 update 2 and later have enough C99 support to build liblzma from XZ Utils 5.2.0 and later without modifications. - Older MSVC versions would require a large number of changes to - the XZ Utils code and thus the old MSVC versions aren't supported. - As of 2015-06-19, some work has been done to get xz.exe and other - command line tools built with MSVC, but it's not complete enough - to be included in XZ Utils. + Visual Studio 2015 or later is required to build the command line + tools. Building -------- - It is recommended to use CMake to generate build files for MSVC. - The project files in vs201x directories will be removed in the - future (5.4.x releases will include them still). - - Descriptions of the files in the vs201x directories: - - config.h liblzma configuration #defines for MSVC. - liblzma.vcxproj This builds static liblzma. - liblzma_dll.vcxproj This builds liblzma.dll. - xz_win.sln Solution using the above project files. - - The projects have x86 and x86-64 platform configurations, as well - as a Debug, Release, and ReleaseMT configuration -- MT is the - compiler switch to link to the CRT statically, so it will not - have any other DLL dependencies. - - The VS2017 project files don't set <WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>. - This means that you may need to either install Windows SDK 8.1 or - you may need to set the target platform version before building. + 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). - Currently no test programs are built or run under MSVC from the - project files. CMake-based builds include tests too. + 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 |