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| XZ Utils Installation |
| ===================== |
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| 0. Preface |
| 1. Supported platforms |
| 1.1. Compilers |
| 1.2. Platform-specific notes |
| 1.2.1. AIX |
| 1.2.2. IRIX |
| 1.2.3. MINIX 3 |
| 1.2.4. OpenVMS |
| 1.2.5. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives |
| 1.2.6. Tru64 |
| 1.2.7. Windows |
| 1.2.8. DOS |
| 1.3. Adding support for new platforms |
| 2. configure options |
| 2.1. Static vs. dynamic linking of liblzma |
| 2.2. Optimizing xzdec and lzmadec |
| 3. xzgrep and other scripts |
| 3.1. Dependencies |
| 3.2. PATH |
| 4. Troubleshooting |
| 4.1. "No C99 compiler was found." |
| 4.2. "No POSIX conforming shell (sh) was found." |
| 4.3. configure works but build fails at crc32_x86.S |
| 4.4. Lots of warnings about symbol visibility |
| 4.5. "make check" fails |
| 4.6. liblzma.so (or similar) not found when running xz |
| |
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| 0. Preface |
| ---------- |
| |
| If you aren't familiar with building packages that use GNU Autotools, |
| see the file INSTALL.generic for generic instructions before reading |
| further. |
| |
| If you are going to build a package for distribution, see also the |
| file PACKAGERS. It contains information that should help making the |
| binary packages as good as possible, but the information isn't very |
| interesting to those making local builds for private use or for use |
| in special situations like embedded systems. |
| |
| |
| 1. Supported platforms |
| ---------------------- |
| |
| XZ Utils are developed on GNU/Linux, but they should work on many |
| POSIX-like operating systems like *BSDs and Solaris, and even on |
| a few non-POSIX operating systems. |
| |
| |
| 1.1. Compilers |
| |
| A C99 compiler is required to compile XZ Utils. If you use GCC, you |
| need at least version 3.x.x. GCC version 2.xx.x doesn't support some |
| C99 features used in XZ Utils source code, thus GCC 2 won't compile |
| XZ Utils. |
| |
| XZ Utils takes advantage of some GNU C extensions when building |
| with GCC. Because these extensions are used only when building |
| with GCC, it should be possible to use any C99 compiler. |
| |
| |
| 1.2. Platform-specific notes |
| |
| 1.2.1. AIX |
| |
| If you use IBM XL C compiler, pass CC=xlc_r to configure. If |
| you use CC=xlc instead, you must disable threading support |
| with --disable-threads (usually not recommended). |
| |
| |
| 1.2.2. IRIX |
| |
| MIPSpro 7.4.4m has been reported to produce broken code if using |
| the -O2 optimization flag ("make check" fails). Using -O1 should |
| work. |
| |
| A problem has been reported when using shared liblzma. Passing |
| --disable-shared to configure works around this. Alternatively, |
| putting "-64" to CFLAGS to build a 64-bit version might help too. |
| |
| |
| 1.2.3. MINIX 3 |
| |
| The default install of MINIX 3 includes Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK), |
| which doesn't support C99. Install GCC to compile XZ Utils. |
| |
| MINIX 3.1.8 and older have bugs in /usr/include/stdint.h, which has |
| to be patched before XZ Utils can be compiled correctly. See |
| <http://gforge.cs.vu.nl/gf/project/minix/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=537>. |
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| MINIX 3.2.0 and later use a different libc and aren't affected by |
| the above bug. |
| |
| XZ Utils doesn't have code to detect the amount of physical RAM and |
| number of CPU cores on MINIX 3. |
| |
| See section 4.4 in this file about symbol visibility warnings (you |
| may want to pass gl_cv_cc_visibility=no to configure). |
| |
| |
| 1.2.4. OpenVMS |
| |
| XZ Utils can be built for OpenVMS, but the build system files |
| are not included in the XZ Utils source package. The required |
| OpenVMS-specific files are maintained by Jouk Jansen and can be |
| downloaded here: |
| |
| http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#xzutils |
| |
| |
| 1.2.5. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives |
| |
| The following linker error has been reported on some x86 systems: |
| |
| ld: fatal: relocation error: R_386_GOTOFF: ... |
| |
| This can be worked around by passing gl_cv_cc_visibility=no |
| as an argument to the configure script. |
| |
| |
| 1.2.6. Tru64 |
| |
| If you try to use the native C compiler on Tru64 (passing CC=cc to |
| configure), you may need the workaround mention in section 4.1 in |
| this file (pass also ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= to configure). |
| |
| |
| 1.2.7. Windows |
| |
| Building XZ Utils on Windows is supported under MinGW + MSYS, |
| MinGW-w64 + MSYS, and Cygwin. There is windows/build.bash to |
| ease packaging XZ Utils with MinGW(-w64) + MSYS into a |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| windows/README-Windows.txt for details. |
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| |
| 1.2.8. DOS |
| |
| There is an experimental Makefile in the "dos" directory to build |
| XZ Utils on DOS using DJGPP. Support for long file names (LFN) is |
| needed. See dos/README for more information. |
| |
| GNU Autotools based build hasn't been tried on DOS. If you try, I |
| would like to hear if it worked. |
| |
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| 1.3. Adding support for new platforms |
| |
| If you have written patches to make XZ Utils to work on previously |
| unsupported platform, please send the patches to me! I will consider |
| including them to the official version. It's nice to minimize the |
| need of third-party patching. |
| |
| One exception: Don't request or send patches to change the whole |
| source package to C89. I find C99 substantially nicer to write and |
| maintain. However, the public library headers must be in C89 to |
| avoid frustrating those who maintain programs, which are strictly |
| in C89 or C++. |
| |
| |
| 2. configure options |
| -------------------- |
| |
| In most cases, the defaults are what you want. Many of the options |
| below are useful only when building a size-optimized version of |
| liblzma or command line tools. |
| |
| --enable-encoders=LIST |
| --disable-encoders |
| Specify a comma-separated LIST of filter encoders to |
| build. See "./configure --help" for exact list of |
| available filter encoders. The default is to build all |
| supported encoders. |
| |
| If LIST is empty or --disable-encoders is used, no filter |
| encoders will be built and also the code shared between |
| encoders will be omitted. |
| |
| Disabling encoders will remove some symbols from the |
| liblzma ABI, so this option should be used only when it |
| is known to not cause problems. |
| |
| --enable-decoders=LIST |
| --disable-decoders |
| This is like --enable-encoders but for decoders. The |
| default is to build all supported decoders. |
| |
| --enable-match-finders=LIST |
| liblzma includes two categories of match finders: |
| hash chains and binary trees. Hash chains (hc3 and hc4) |
| are quite fast but they don't provide the best compression |
| ratio. Binary trees (bt2, bt3 and bt4) give excellent |
| compression ratio, but they are slower and need more |
| memory than hash chains. |
| |
| You need to enable at least one match finder to build the |
| LZMA1 or LZMA2 filter encoders. Usually hash chains are |
| used only in the fast mode, while binary trees are used to |
| when the best compression ratio is wanted. |
| |
| The default is to build all the match finders if LZMA1 |
| or LZMA2 filter encoders are being built. |
| |
| --enable-checks=LIST |
| liblzma support multiple integrity checks. CRC32 is |
| mandatory, and cannot be omitted. See "./configure --help" |
| for exact list of available integrity check types. |
| |
| liblzma and the command line tools can decompress files |
| which use unsupported integrity check type, but naturally |
| the file integrity cannot be verified in that case. |
| |
| Disabling integrity checks may remove some symbols from |
| the liblzma ABI, so this option should be used only when |
| it is known to not cause problems. |
| |
| --disable-xz |
| --disable-xzdec |
| --disable-lzmadec |
| --disable-lzmainfo |
| Don't build and install the command line tool mentioned |
| in the option name. |
| |
| NOTE: Disabling xz will skip some tests in "make check". |
| |
| NOTE: If xzdec is disabled and lzmadec is left enabled, |
| a dangling man page symlink lzmadec.1 -> xzdec.1 is |
| created. |
| |
| --disable-lzma-links |
| Don't create symlinks for LZMA Utils compatibility. |
| This includes lzma, unlzma, and lzcat. If scripts are |
| installed, also lzdiff, lzcmp, lzgrep, lzegrep, lzfgrep, |
| lzmore, and lzless will be omitted if this option is used. |
| |
| --disable-scripts |
| Don't install the scripts xzdiff, xzgrep, xzmore, xzless, |
| and their symlinks. |
| |
| --disable-doc |
| Don't install the documentation files to $docdir |
| (often /usr/doc/xz or /usr/local/doc/xz). Man pages |
| will still be installed. The $docdir can be changed |
| with --docdir=DIR. |
| |
| --disable-assembler |
| liblzma includes some assembler optimizations. Currently |
| there is only assembler code for CRC32 and CRC64 for |
| 32-bit x86. |
| |
| All the assembler code in liblzma is position-independent |
| code, which is suitable for use in shared libraries and |
| position-independent executables. So far only i386 |
| instructions are used, but the code is optimized for i686 |
| class CPUs. If you are compiling liblzma exclusively for |
| pre-i686 systems, you may want to disable the assembler |
| code. |
| |
| --enable-unaligned-access |
| Allow liblzma to use unaligned memory access for 16-bit |
| and 32-bit loads and stores. This should be enabled only |
| when the hardware supports this, i.e. when unaligned |
| access is fast. Some operating system kernels emulate |
| unaligned access, which is extremely slow. This option |
| shouldn't be used on systems that rely on such emulation. |
| |
| Unaligned access is enabled by default on x86, x86-64, |
| and big endian PowerPC. |
| |
| --enable-small |
| Reduce the size of liblzma by selecting smaller but |
| semantically equivalent version of some functions, and |
| omit precomputed lookup tables. This option tends to |
| make liblzma slightly slower. |
| |
| Note that while omitting the precomputed tables makes |
| liblzma smaller on disk, the tables are still needed at |
| run time, and need to be computed at startup. This also |
| means that the RAM holding the tables won't be shared |
| between applications linked against shared liblzma. |
| |
| This option doesn't modify CFLAGS to tell the compiler |
| to optimize for size. You need to add -Os or equivalent |
| flag(s) to CFLAGS manually. |
| |
| --enable-assume-ram=SIZE |
| On the most common operating systems, XZ Utils is able to |
| detect the amount of physical memory on the system. This |
| information is used by the options --memlimit-compress, |
| --memlimit-decompress, and --memlimit when setting the |
| limit to a percentage of total RAM. |
| |
| On some systems, there is no code to detect the amount of |
| RAM though. Using --enable-assume-ram one can set how much |
| memory to assume on these systems. SIZE is given as MiB. |
| The default is 128 MiB. |
| |
| Feel free to send patches to add support for detecting |
| the amount of RAM on the operating system you use. See |
| src/common/tuklib_physmem.c for details. |
| |
| --enable-threads=METHOD |
| Threading support is enabled by default so normally there |
| is no need to specify this option. |
| |
| Supported values for METHOD: |
| |
| yes Autodetect the threading method. If none |
| is found, configure will give an error. |
| |
| posix Use POSIX pthreads. This is the default |
| except on Windows outside Cygwin. |
| |
| win95 Use Windows 95 compatible threads. This |
| is compatible with Windows XP and later |
| too. This is the default for 32-bit x86 |
| Windows builds. The `win95' threading is |
| incompatible with --enable-small. |
| |
| vista Use Windows Vista compatible threads. The |
| resulting binaries won't run on Windows XP |
| or older. This is the default for Windows |
| excluding 32-bit x86 builds (that is, on |
| x86-64 the default is `vista'). |
| |
| no Disable threading support. This is the |
| same as using --disable-threads. |
| NOTE: If combined with --enable-small, the |
| resulting liblzma won't be thread safe, |
| that is, if a multi-threaded application |
| calls any liblzma functions from more than |
| one thread, something bad may happen. |
| |
| --enable-symbol-versions |
| Use symbol versioning for liblzma. This is enabled by |
| default on GNU/Linux, other GNU-based systems, and |
| FreeBSD. |
| |
| --enable-debug |
| This enables the assert() macro and possibly some other |
| run-time consistency checks. It makes the code slower, so |
| you normally don't want to have this enabled. |
| |
| --enable-werror |
| If building with GCC, make all compiler warnings an error, |
| that abort the compilation. This may help catching bugs, |
| and should work on most systems. This has no effect on the |
| resulting binaries. |
| |
| |
| 2.1. Static vs. dynamic linking of liblzma |
| |
| On 32-bit x86, linking against static liblzma can give a minor |
| speed improvement. Static libraries on x86 are usually compiled as |
| position-dependent code (non-PIC) and shared libraries are built as |
| position-independent code (PIC). PIC wastes one register, which can |
| make the code slightly slower compared to a non-PIC version. (Note |
| that this doesn't apply to x86-64.) |
| |
| If you want to link xz against static liblzma, the simplest way |
| is to pass --disable-shared to configure. If you want also shared |
| liblzma, run configure again and run "make install" only for |
| src/liblzma. |
| |
| |
| 2.2. Optimizing xzdec and lzmadec |
| |
| xzdec and lzmadec are intended to be relatively small instead of |
| optimizing for the best speed. Thus, it is a good idea to build |
| xzdec and lzmadec separately: |
| |
| - To link the tools against static liblzma, pass --disable-shared |
| to configure. |
| |
| - To select somewhat size-optimized variant of some things in |
| liblzma, pass --enable-small to configure. |
| |
| - Tell the compiler to optimize for size instead of speed. |
| E.g. with GCC, put -Os into CFLAGS. |
| |
| - xzdec and lzmadec will never use multithreading capabilities of |
| liblzma. You can avoid dependency on libpthread by passing |
| --disable-threads to configure. |
| |
| - There are and will be no translated messages for xzdec and |
| lzmadec, so it is fine to pass also --disable-nls to configure. |
| |
| - Only decoder code is needed, so you can speed up the build |
| slightly by passing --disable-encoders to configure. This |
| shouldn't affect the final size of the executables though, |
| because the linker is able to omit the encoder code anyway. |
| |
| If you have no use for xzdec or lzmadec, you can disable them with |
| --disable-xzdec and --disable-lzmadec. |
| |
| |
| 3. xzgrep and other scripts |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| 3.1. Dependencies |
| |
| POSIX shell (sh) and bunch of other standard POSIX tools are required |
| to run the scripts. The configure script tries to find a POSIX |
| compliant sh, but if it fails, you can force the shell by passing |
| gl_cv_posix_shell=/path/to/posix-sh as an argument to the configure |
| script. |
| |
| Some of the scripts require also mktemp. The original mktemp can be |
| found from <http://www.mktemp.org/>. On GNU, most will use the mktemp |
| program from GNU coreutils instead of the original implementation. |
| Both mktemp versions are fine for XZ Utils (and practically for |
| everything else too). |
| |
| |
| 3.2. PATH |
| |
| The scripts assume that the required tools (standard POSIX utilities, |
| mktemp, and xz) are in PATH; the scripts don't set the PATH themselves. |
| Some people like this while some think this is a bug. Those in the |
| latter group can easily patch the scripts before running the configure |
| script by taking advantage of a placeholder line in the scripts. |
| |
| For example, to make the scripts prefix /usr/bin:/bin to PATH: |
| |
| perl -pi -e 's|^#SET_PATH.*$|PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:\$PATH|' \ |
| src/scripts/xz*.in |
| |
| |
| 4. Troubleshooting |
| ------------------ |
| |
| 4.1. "No C99 compiler was found." |
| |
| You need a C99 compiler to build XZ Utils. If the configure script |
| cannot find a C99 compiler and you think you have such a compiler |
| installed, set the compiler command by passing CC=/path/to/c99 as |
| an argument to the configure script. |
| |
| If you get this error even when you think your compiler supports C99, |
| you can override the test by passing ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= as an argument |
| to the configure script. The test for C99 compiler is not perfect (and |
| it is not as easy to make it perfect as it sounds), so sometimes this |
| may be needed. You will get a compile error if your compiler doesn't |
| support enough C99. |
| |
| |
| 4.2. "No POSIX conforming shell (sh) was found." |
| |
| xzgrep and other scripts need a shell that (roughly) conforms |
| to POSIX. The configure script tries to find such a shell. If |
| it fails, you can force the shell to be used by passing |
| gl_cv_posix_shell=/path/to/posix-sh as an argument to the configure |
| script. |
| |
| |
| 4.3. configure works but build fails at crc32_x86.S |
| |
| The easy fix is to pass --disable-assembler to the configure script. |
| |
| The configure script determines if assembler code can be used by |
| looking at the configure triplet; there is currently no check if |
| the assembler code can actually actually be built. The x86 assembler |
| code should work on x86 GNU/Linux, *BSDs, Solaris, Darwin, MinGW, |
| Cygwin, and DJGPP. On other x86 systems, there may be problems and |
| the assembler code may need to be disabled with the configure option. |
| |
| If you get this error when building for x86-64, you have specified or |
| the configure script has misguessed your architecture. Pass the |
| correct configure triplet using the --build=CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM option |
| (see INSTALL.generic). |
| |
| |
| 4.4. Lots of warnings about symbol visibility |
| |
| On some systems where symbol visibility isn't supported, GCC may |
| still accept the visibility options and attributes, which will make |
| configure think that visibility is supported. This will result in |
| many compiler warnings. You can avoid the warnings by forcing the |
| visibility support off by passing gl_cv_cc_visibility=no as an |
| argument to the configure script. This has no effect on the |
| resulting binaries, but fewer warnings looks nicer and may allow |
| using --enable-werror. |
| |
| |
| 4.5. "make check" fails |
| |
| A likely reason is that libtool links the test programs against |
| an installed version of liblzma instead of the version that was |
| just built. This is obviously a bug which seems to happen on |
| some platforms. A workaround is to uninstall the old liblzma |
| versions first. |
| |
| If the problem isn't the one described above, then it's likely |
| a bug in XZ Utils or in the compiler. See the platform-specific |
| notes in this file for possible known problems. Please report |
| a bug if you cannot solve the problem. See README for contact |
| information. |
| |
| |
| 4.6. liblzma.so (or similar) not found when running xz |
| |
| If you installed the package with "make install" and get an error |
| about liblzma.so (or a similarly named file) being missing, try |
| running "ldconfig" to update the run-time linker cache (if your |
| operating system has such a command). |
| |
