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+XZ Utils on DOS |
+=============== |
+ |
+Introduction |
+ |
+ This document explains how to build XZ Utils for DOS using DJGPP. |
+ The resulting binaries should run at least on various DOS versions |
+ and under Windows 95/98/98SE/ME, which cannot run the Windows version |
+ of XZ Utils. |
+ |
+ This is currently experimental and has got very little testing. |
+ |
+ |
+Getting and Installing DJGPP |
+ |
+ You may use <http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html> to help |
+ deciding what to download, but as of writing (2009-02-13) that may |
+ not be the most convenient way taking into account what components |
+ are actually required to build XZ Utils. However, using the |
+ zip-picker can still be worth doing to get nice short summary of |
+ installation instructions (they can be found from readme.1st too). |
+ |
+ For more manual method, first select a mirror from |
+ <http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html>. You need |
+ the following files: |
+ |
+ unzip32.exe |
+ beta/v2/djdev204.zip |
+ v2gnu/bnu219b.zip |
+ v2gnu/gcc432b.zip |
+ v2gnu/mak3791b.zip |
+ v2gnu/sed415b.zip |
+ v2misc/csdpmi5b.zip |
+ |
+ If newer versions are available, probably you should try them first. |
+ Note that djdev203.zip is too old to build XZ Utils; you need at |
+ least djdev204.zip. Also note that you want csdpmi5b.zip even if you |
+ run under Windows or DOSEMU, because the XZ Utils Makefile will embed |
+ cwsdstub.exe to the resulting binaries. |
+ |
+ See the instructions in readme.1st found from djdev204.zip. Here's |
+ a short summary, but you should still read readme.1st. |
+ |
+ C:\> mkdir DJGPP |
+ C:\> cd DJGPP |
+ C:\DJGPP> c:\download\unzip32 c:\download\djdev204.zip |
+ C:\DJGPP> c:\download\unzip32 c:\download\bnu219b.zip |
+ C:\DJGPP> c:\download\unzip32 c:\download\gcc432b.zip |
+ C:\DJGPP> c:\download\unzip32 c:\download\mak3791b.zip |
+ C:\DJGPP> c:\download\unzip32 c:\download\sed415b.zip |
+ C:\DJGPP> c:\download\unzip32 c:\download\csdpmi5b.zip |
+ |
+ C:\DJGPP> set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH% |
+ C:\DJGPP> set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV |
+ |
+ You may want to add the last two lines into AUTOEXEC.BAT or have, |
+ for example, DJGPP.BAT which you can run before using DJGPP. |
+ |
+ Make sure you use completely upper case path in the DJGPP environment |
+ variable. This is not required by DJGPP, but the XZ Utils Makefile is |
+ a bit stupid and expects that everything in DJGPP environment variable |
+ is uppercase. |
+ |
+ |
+Building |
+ |
+ Just run "make" in this directory (the directory containing this |
+ README). You should get liblzma.a, xz.exe, xzdec.exe, and |
+ lzmadec.exe. Of these, probably xz.exe is the only interesting one. |
+ |
+ Note: You need to have an environment that supports long filenames. |
+ Once you have built XZ Utils, the resulting binaries can be run |
+ without long filename support. |
+ |
+ |
+Additional Make Flags and Targets |
+ |
+ You may want to try some additional optimizations, which may or |
+ may not make the code faster (and may or may not hit possible |
+ compiler bugs more easily): |
+ |
+ make CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" |
+ |
+ If you want to enable assertions (the assert() macro), use DEBUG=1. |
+ You may want to disable optimizations too if you plan to actually |
+ debug the code. Never use DEBUG=1 for production builds! |
+ |
+ make DEBUG=1 CFLAGS="-g -O0" |
+ |
+ |
+Bugs |
+ |
+ "make clean" may remove src/xz/hardware.c when it tries to remove |
+ src/xz/hardware-fixed.c. This is probably a bug somewhere in the |
+ DOS environment I use. Maybe it tries truncated 8.3 name first and |
+ since that gives a name of an existing file, it doesn't look for |
+ long filename. |
+ |
+ "xz -fc /dev/tty" hangs at least in DOSEMU and cannot be interrupted |
+ by pressing C-c. Maybe xz should never accept non-regular files on |
+ DOS even when --force is used. |
+ |
+ Using different memory usage limit for encoding and decoding doesn't |
+ make sense under pure DOS. Maybe it is still OK when running under |
+ Windows. |
+ |
+ The progress indicator of "xz -v" doesn't get updated when running |
+ under Dosbox, but it works in DOSEMU. I currently (2009-02-13) don't |
+ know if it works in other environments. |
+ |
+ Report bugs to <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> (in English or Finnish). |
+ |
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