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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ XZ Utils Installation 1. Supported platforms 1.1. Compilers 1.2. Platform-specific notes - 1.2.1. Darwin (Mac OS X) + 1.2.1. IRIX 1.2.2. Tru64 1.2.3. Windows 1.2.4. DOS @@ -59,14 +59,11 @@ XZ Utils Installation 1.2. Platform-specific notes -1.2.1. Darwin (Mac OS X) +1.2.1. IRIX - You may need --disable-assembler if building universal binaries on - Darwin. This is because different files are built when assembler is - enabled, and there's no way to make it work with universal build. - If you want to keep the assembler code, consider building one - architecture at a time, and then combining the results to create - universal binaries (see lipo(1)). + MIPSpro 7.4.4m has been reported to produce broken code if using + the -O2 optimization flag ("make check" fails). Using -O1 should + work. 1.2.2. Tru64 @@ -77,40 +74,43 @@ XZ Utils Installation C99. You can safely override the test for C99 compiler by passing ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= as the argument to the configure script. + There's no code to detect the amount of RAM on Tru64. It can be + added, but I currently don't know anyone who can test on Tru64. + For now, you may want to pass --enable-assume-ram=SIZE to the + configure script. See the section 2 in this file for details. -1.2.3. Windows - - Building XZ Utils on Windows is supported under MinGW and Cygwin. - If the Autotools based build gives you trouble with MinGW, you may - want try the alternative method found from the "windows" directory. - MSVC doesn't support C99, thus it is not possible to use MSVC to - compile XZ Utils. However, it is possible to use liblzma.dll from - MSVC once liblzma.dll has been built with MinGW. The required - import library for MSVC can be created from liblzma.def using the - "lib" command shipped in MSVC: +1.2.3. Windows - lib /def:liblzma.def /out:liblzma.lib /machine:ix86 + Building XZ Utils on Windows is supported under MinGW + MSYS and + Cygwin. There is windows/build.sh to ease packaging XZ Utils with + MinGW + MSYS into a redistributable .zip or .7z file. See + windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt for more information. - On x86-64, the /machine argument has to naturally be changed: + 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. - lib /def:liblzma.def /out:liblzma.lib /machine:x64 + 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. 1.2.4. 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. + needed. See dos/README for more information. - GNU Autotools based build hasn't been tried on DOS. + GNU Autotools based build hasn't been tried on DOS. If you try, I + would like to hear if it worked. 1.2.5. OS/2 - You will need to pass --disable-assembler to configure when building - on OS/2. - To omit large number of harmless warnings about visibility support, pass gl_cv_cc_visibility=no as an argument to the configure script. This isn't mandatory since it should have no effect on the resulting |