Adam Hi, In case you've missed this - you can also try the CMake version at https://github.com/mindw/xz . It has all utilities ported as well.
Please note that it is a very bad idea to mix runtimes on Windows - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/04/11/10516280.aspx . -g -gabi On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Adam Walling <adam.wall...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Lasse Collin <lasse.col...@tukaani.org> > wrote: >> On 2015-05-22 Adam Walling wrote: >>> This is a minimal solution and two project files which allow liblzma >>> to be built with MSVC2013. I did not attempt to include any tools or >>> tests, or address any warnings. However, it is functional, so I would >>> like to share this as an alternative to the 'Fairly Complete' >>> solution / project. >>> >>> This does not require any changes to the code itself, just adding the >>> files within the /windows subdirectory is enough. >>> >>> liblzma.vcxproj builds the static library >>> liblzma_dll.vcxproj builds a dll >> >> Thanks! This could be a good start since I still think that liblzma is >> the important part of XZ Utils to get working with MSVC. xz.exe can wait >> a little longer. >> >> There are a few extra files in the build: >> >> - Of the tuklib_*.c files, liblzma only needs tuklib_physmem.c and >> tuklib_cpucores.c. >> >> - rangecoder/price_tablegen.c must not be included. It's a standalone >> tool to generate price_table.c. > > Removed, thanks! > >> >> It's nice to see that you got liblzma_w32res.rc to build as is. In the >> other thread there were problems with the resource files and using CMake >> was considered, but clearly it's not needed at least for liblzma DLL. >> >> Seems that the DLL file becomes liblzma_dll.dll. I wonder if that is a >> good thing. As I understand this, the MSVC-built liblzma DLL should be >> compatible with the DLL built with MinGW-w64 so naming it just >> liblzma.dll should be more convenient, but perhaps I'm missing >> something. > > Now using liblzma.dll target path as it should. > >> >> With the above issues fixed, I could like to commit the project files >> and include them in XZ Utils 5.2.2. This doesn't make the other MSVC >> thread deprecated yet: I should fix a few more warnings, and perhaps >> xz.exe could be made MSVC compatible some day too. > > Everything is updated at https://github.com/adzm/xz_win now > > You can also grab them directly at http://adzm.net/xz_win/ > > including a patch that fixes all warnings in MSVC2013 when building: > > http://adzm.net/xz_win/msvc2013_warnings.patch > >> >> -- >> Lasse Collin | IRC: Larhzu @ IRCnet & Freenode >> > > > > -- > > - Adam D. Walling >
