From 3a5d755d055d51f99c523b4c2952727e1e69cfa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:21:30 +0300 Subject: Windows: Update the docs. --- windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) create mode 100644 windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt (limited to 'windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt') diff --git a/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt b/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7dd31685 --- /dev/null +++ b/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ + +Building XZ Utils with Microsoft Visual Studio +============================================== + +Introduction +------------ + + MSVC 2013 update 2 and later have enough C99 support to build + liblzma from XZ Utils 5.2.0 and later without modifications. + Older MSVC versions would require a large number of changes to + the XZ Utils code and thus the old MSVC versions aren't supported. + + As of 2015-06-19, some work has been done to get xz.exe and other + command line tools built with MSVC, but it's not complete enough + to be included in XZ Utils. + + +Building +-------- + + The following files in this directory are for MSVC: + + config.h liblzma configuration #defines for MSVC. + liblzma.vcxproj This builds static liblzma. + liblzma_dll.vcxproj This builds liblzma.dll. + xz_win.sln Solution using the above project files. + + The projects have x86 and x86-64 platform configurations, as well + as a Debug, Release, and ReleaseMT configuration -- MT is the + compiler switch to link to the CRT statically, so it will not + have any other DLL dependencies. + + Currently no test programs are built or run under MSVC. + + MSVC gives a bunch of compiler warnings. Some warnings are specific + to 32-bit or 64-bit build and some appear for both builds. These + are known and shouldn't be a problem. Some of them will probably + be fixed in the future. + + +Notes +----- + + liblzma API headers declare the functions with __declspec(dllimport) + by default. To avoid this when using static liblzma from your code, + #define LZMA_API_STATIC before #including . + -- cgit v1.2.3