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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ XZ Utils Installation 1.2.6. Tru64 1.2.7. Windows 1.2.8. DOS + 1.2.9. z/OS 1.3. Adding support for new platforms 2. configure options 2.1. Static vs. dynamic linking of liblzma @@ -139,8 +140,22 @@ XZ Utils Installation 1.2.7. Windows - Building XZ Utils on Windows is supported under the following - environments: + If it is enough to build liblzma (no command line tools): + + - There is experimental CMake support. As it is, it should be + good enough to build static liblzma with Visual Studio. + Building liblzma.dll might work too (if it doesn't, it should + be fixed). The CMake support may work with MinGW or MinGW-w64. + Read the comment in the beginning of CMakeLists.txt before + running CMake! + + - There are Visual Studio project files under the "windows" + directory. See windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt. In the future the + project files will be removed when CMake support is good + enough. Thus, please test the CMake version and help fix + possible issues. + + To build also the command line tools: - MinGW-w64 + MSYS (32-bit and 64-bit x86): This is used for building the official binary packages for Windows. @@ -156,9 +171,6 @@ XZ Utils Installation which is safe under older Cygwin versions. You can check the Cygwin version with the command "cygcheck -V". - - Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 update 2 or later (MSVC for short): - See windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt for more information. - 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 @@ -171,12 +183,31 @@ XZ Utils Installation 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. + There is a Makefile in the "dos" directory to build XZ Utils on + DOS using DJGPP. Support for long file names (LFN) is needed at + build time but the resulting xz.exe works without LFN support too. + See dos/INSTALL.txt and dos/README.txt for more information. + - GNU Autotools based build hasn't been tried on DOS. If you try, I - would like to hear if it worked. +1.2.9. z/OS + + To build XZ Utils on z/OS UNIX System Services using xlc, pass + these options to the configure script: CC='xlc -qhaltonmsg=CCN3296' + CPPFLAS='-D_UNIX03_THREADS -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600'. The first makes + xlc throw an error if a header file is missing, which is required + to make the tests in configure work. The CPPFLAGS are needed to + get pthread support (some other CPPFLAGS may work too; if there + are problems, try -D_UNIX95_THREADS instead of -D_UNIX03_THREADS). + + test_scripts.sh in "make check" will fail even if the scripts + actually work because the test data includes compressed files + with US-ASCII text. + + No other tests should fail. If test_files.sh fails, check that + the included .xz test files weren't affected by EBCDIC conversion. + + XZ Utils doesn't have code to detect the amount of physical RAM and + number of CPU cores on z/OS. 1.3. Adding support for new platforms |