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diff --git a/windows/INSTALL-MinGW.txt b/windows/INSTALL-MinGW.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 72e2718..0000000 --- a/windows/INSTALL-MinGW.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,138 +0,0 @@ - -Building XZ Utils on Windows -============================ - -Introduction ------------- - - This document explains shortly where to get and how to install the - build tools that are needed to build XZ Utils on Windows. The final - binary package will be standalone in sense that it will depend only - on DLLs that are included in all Windows installations. - - These instructions don't apply to Cygwin. XZ Utils can be built under - Cygwin in the same way as many other packages. - - These instructions don't apply to MinGW and MSYS developers either, - who may want to package XZ Utils for MinGW or MSYS distributions. - You know who you are, and will probably use quite different configure - options etc. than what is described here. - - -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. - - 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 <https://7-zip.org/> handy when extracting - 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 - these should have a subdirectory "bin": - - C:\devel\tools\msys - C:\devel\tools\mingw - C:\devel\tools\mingw-w32 - C:\devel\tools\mingw-w64 - - -Installing MSYS - - You can download MSYS from MinGW's Sourceforge page: - - https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/msys-core/ - - 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 - without worrying about uninstallers. - - -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: - - https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ - - These version numbers were the latest when I wrote this document, but - you probably should pick the latest versions: - - MinGW Runtime -> mingwrt-3.17-mingw32-dev.tar.gz - MinGW API for MS-Windows -> w32api-3.14-mingw32-dev.tar.gz - GNU Binutils -> binutils-2.20-1-bin.tar.gz - GCC Version 4 -> gcc-full-4.4.0-mingw32-bin-2.tar.lzma - - The full GCC package is quite big, but if you want a smaller - download, you will need to download more than one file, so I'm - using the full package in this document for simplicity. - - Extract the packages in the above order, possibly overwriting files - from packages that were extracted earlier. - - -Installing MinGW-w32 or MinGW-w64 - - 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: - - https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.9.2/threads-win32/sjlj/ - - https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.9.2/threads-win32/sjlj/ - - 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 ------------------ - - Start MSYS by going to the directory C:\devel\tools\msys and running - msys.bat there (double-click or use command prompt). It will start - at "home" directory, which is C:\devel\tools\msys\home\YourUserName. - - If you have xz-5.x.x.tar.gz in C:\devel, you should be able to build - it now with the following commands: - - cd /c/devel - tar xzf xz-5.x.x.tar.gz - cd xz-5.x.x - bash windows/build.bash - - If you used some other directory than C:\devel\tools for the build - tools, edit the variables near the beginning of build.bash first. - - If you want to build manually, read the buildit() function in - build.bash. Look especially at the latter configure invocation. - - Be patient. Running configure and other scripts used by the build - system is (very) slow under Windows. - - -Using a snapshot from the Git repository - - To use a snapshot, the build system files need to be generated with - autogen.sh or "autoreconf -fi" before trying to build using the - above build instructions. You can install the relevant extra packages - from MinGW or use Cygwin or use e.g. a GNU/Linux system to create a - source package with the required build system files. - |