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This is for building liblzma. Building xz tool too requires
a little more work. Maybe it will be supported, but for most
MSVC users it's enough to be able to build liblzma.
C99 support in MSVC 2013 is almost usable which is a big
improvement over earlier versions. It's "almost" because
there's a dumb bug that breaks mixed declarations after
an "if" statements unless the "if" statement uses braces:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/808650/visual-studio-2013-c99-compiler-bug
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/808472/c99-support-of-mixed-declarations-and-statements-fails-with-certain-types-and-constructs
Hopefully it will get fixed. Then liblzma should be
compilable with MSVC 2013 without patching.
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The old Makefile + config.h was deleted, because it
becomes outdated too easily and building with the
Autotools based build system works fine even on Windows.
windows/build.sh hasn't got much testing, but it should
work to build 32-bit x86 and x86-64 versions of XZ Utils
using MSYS, MinGW or MinGW-w32, and MinGW-w64.
windows/INSTALL-Windows.txt describes what packages are
needed and how to install them.
windows/README-Windows.txt is a readme file for the binary
package that build.sh hopefully builds.
There are no instructions about using Autotools for now,
so those using a git snapshot may want to run
"autoreconf -fi && ./configure && make mydist" on a UN*X
box and then copy the resulting .tar.gz to a Windows.
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Thanks to Dan Shechter for the patch.
It is likely that windows/Makefile will be removed
completely, because Autotols based build nowadays
works well with both 32-bit and 64-bit MinGW (I
just need to update the docs).
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Now the version number is not duplicated in the
Windows-specific files anymore.
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