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Building XZ Utils on Windows
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Introduction
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This document explains shortly where to get and how to install the
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build tools that are needed to build XZ Utils on Windows. The final
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binary package will be standalone in sense that it will depend only
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on DLLs that are included in all Windows installations.
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These instructions don't apply to Cygwin. XZ Utils can be built under
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Cygwin in the same way as many other packages.
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These instructions don't apply to MinGW and MSYS developers either,
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who may want to package XZ Utils for MinGW or MSYS distributions.
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You know who you are, and will probably use quite different configure
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options etc. than what is described here.
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Installing the toolchain(s)
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Some of the following is needed:
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- MSYS is always needed to use the GNU Autotools based build system.
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- MinGW builds 32-bit x86 binaries.
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- 32-bit MinGW-w64 (I call it MingW-w32 here) builds 32-bit x86
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executables too.
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- MinGW-w64 builds 64-bit x86-64 binaries.
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So you need to pick between MinGW and MinGW-w32 when building
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32-bit version. You don't need both.
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You might find 7-Zip <http://7-zip.org/> handy when extracting
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some files. The ready-made build script build.bash will also use
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7-Zip to create the distributable .zip and .7z files.
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I used the following directory structure but you can use whatever
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you want. Just note that I will use these in my examples. Each of
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these should have a subdirectory "bin":
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C:\devel\tools\msys
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C:\devel\tools\mingw
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C:\devel\tools\mingw-w32
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C:\devel\tools\mingw-w64
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Installing MSYS
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You can download MSYS from MinGW's Sourceforge page:
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/msys-core/
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I recommend using MSYS 1.0.11 (MSYS-1.0.11.exe or
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msysCORE-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz) because that package includes all the
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required tools. At least some of the later versions include only
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a subset and thus you would need to download the rest separately.
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The old version will work fine for building XZ Utils.
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You can use either the .exe or .tar.gz package. I prefer .tar.gz,
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because it can be extracted into any directory and later removed
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without worrying about uninstallers.
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Installing MinGW
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NOTE: This section may be outdated. I haven't tried MinGW recently.
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You can download the required packages from MinGW's Sourceforge page:
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
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These version numbers were the latest when I wrote this document, but
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you probably should pick the latest versions:
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MinGW Runtime -> mingwrt-3.17-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
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MinGW API for MS-Windows -> w32api-3.14-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
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GNU Binutils -> binutils-2.20-1-bin.tar.gz
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GCC Version 4 -> gcc-full-4.4.0-mingw32-bin-2.tar.lzma
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The full GCC package is quite big, but if you want a smaller
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download, you will need to download more than one file, so I'm
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using the full package in this document for simplicity.
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Extract the packages in the above order, possibly overwriting files
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from packages that were extracted earlier.
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Installing MinGW-w32 or MinGW-w64
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I used the packages from Mingw-builds project. With that it is
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enough to pick one .7z file for 32-bit and another for 64-bit
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toolchain. For XZ Utils 5.2.0 I used the packages from these
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directories:
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.9.2/threads-win32/sjlj/
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.9.2/threads-win32/sjlj/
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If you install both MinGW-w32 and MinGW-w64, remember to extract
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them into different directories. build.bash looks at
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C:\devel\tools\mingw-w32 and C:\devel\tools\mingw-w64 by default.
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Building XZ Utils
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Start MSYS by going to the directory C:\devel\tools\msys and running
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msys.bat there (double-click or use command prompt). It will start
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at "home" directory, which is C:\devel\tools\msys\home\YourUserName.
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If you have xz-5.x.x.tar.gz in C:\devel, you should be able to build
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it now with the following commands:
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cd /c/devel
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tar xzf xz-5.x.x.tar.gz
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cd xz-5.x.x
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bash windows/build.bash
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If you used some other directory than C:\devel\tools for the build
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tools, edit the variables near the beginning of build.bash first.
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If you want to build manually, read the buildit() function in
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build.bash. Look especially at the latter configure invocation.
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Be patient. Running configure and other scripts used by the build
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system is (very) slow under Windows.
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Using a snapshot from the Git repository
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To use a snapshot, the build system files need to be generated with
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autogen.sh or "autoreconf -fi" before trying to build using the
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above build instructions. You can install the relevant extra packages
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from MinGW or use Cygwin or use e.g. a GNU/Linux system to create a
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source package with the required build system files.
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