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Building libarchive on Windows with LZMA support

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Useful resources:

libarchive's "Building on Windows" Build Instructions
xzutils's INSTALL
xzutils's windows/INSTALL-windows.txt
MinGW's "Getting Started"

Environment setup

Install MinGW. Refer to MinGW's "Getting Started" guide.

I used the mingw-get-setup.exe installer.

Mark the "mingw32-base" package for installation, which includes a port of the standard GNU compiler toolchain.
Install CMake. I used the installer.
Install zlib from the GNUWin32 project.
Drop the
Build xzutils. Refer to xzutil's [windows/INSTALL-windows.txt] for beautifully- detailed instructions.

vinhcomputer commented Apr 18, 2018

Drop the what?

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