https://github.com/julian-r/file-windows

File and Libmagic build with Visual Studio
https://github.com/julian-r/file-windows

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File and Libmagic build with Visual Studio

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/julian-r/file-windows
• Owner: julian-r
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-09-07T11:43:08.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-03-16T11:13:22.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T19:39:50.996Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 2.8 MB
• Stars: 76
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 20
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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This aims to have everything one needs to build file on windows with visual studio.

## Checkout with submodules

```sh

git submodule update --init --recursiv

```

## External Dependencies

- *regex*: I am using [PCRE2](http://www.pcre.org/) version 10.30.

 Unfortunately this is not available on github with tags, so I commited it in this repo.

 I copied `pcre2posix.h` to `regex.h`.

- *dirent*: Dirent is not available on windows, so I used a implementation from [tronkko](https://github.com/tronkko/dirent).

- *getopt*: A similar problem exists with getopt, so I used a implementation from [skandhurkat](https://github.com/skandhurkat/Getopt-for-Visual-Studio).

## Linking

- all the dependencies are statically linked or compiled into the dll

- There is a `.def` file in windows headers describing the exports for the linker

- Since dirent defines some of the symbols used in files `readelf.c` and `magic.c` the include is "patched" into them in the `CMakeLists.txt`

## Updating file

- Checkout the version in the `file` submodule.

- Update `CMakeLists.txt`

- Update `appveyor.yml`

## Updating pcre2

- I disabled the test in the `CMakeFile.txt` manually, the rest is vanilla.