Windows: Update build instructions.
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4fa8182..d643693 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -138,15 +138,18 @@
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 bb4a4d6..7f0afc2 100644
--- a/windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt
+++ b/windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt
@@ -25,16 +25,16 @@
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 <http://7-zip.org/> 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 @@
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 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-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
