https://github.com/philr/bzip2-windows

Patches and a PowerShell script to build bzip2 with Visual Studio 2013 using a dynamic library (libbz2.dll).
https://github.com/philr/bzip2-windows

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Patches and a PowerShell script to build bzip2 with Visual Studio 2013 using a dynamic library (libbz2.dll).

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/philr/bzip2-windows
• Owner: philr
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-02-01T22:29:54.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-12-02T21:03:03.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-27T15:15:51.984Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Language: PowerShell
• Size: 17.6 KB
• Stars: 55
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGES.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Bzip2 – Visual Studio libbz2.dll Build #

Patches and a PowerShell script to build [bzip2](https://www.sourceware.org/bzip2/) with Visual Studio using a dynamic library (libbz2.dll).

## Patches ##

Patches are included in this repository that modify the `makefile.msc` file in the bzip2 distribution to:

- Build cleanly with Visual Studio 2013 and later (replacing deprecated command line options).

- Build libbz2 as a DLL (`libbz2.dll`).

- Dynamically link the executable outputs with `libbz2.dll` (by default the executables are statically linked).

- Add a version resource to the executables and DLL.

- Fix a 'not a normal file' error when using `bzip2.exe` to compress large files.

## PowerShell Script ##

The PowerShell script, `Build-Bzip2.ps1`, performs the following actions:

1. Downloads the bzip2 source from [https://www.sourceware.org/bzip2/](https://www.sourceware.org/bzip2/).

2. Extracts and verifies the source.

3. Applies the patches (see above).

4. For the x86 and x64 architectures:

   1. Executes `nmake` to build bzip2.

   2. Copies build outputs to a directory named `outputs`.

   3. Creates zipped packages containing build outputs in a directory named `packages`.

`Build-Bzip2.ps1` requires:

- 64-bit Windows.

- Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 or later (set `$VisualStudioDir` accordingly).

- [PowerShell Community Extensions](https://pscx.codeplex.com/).

- Git (used to apply patches).

## Binaries ##

32-bit and 64-bit Windows binaries can be [downloaded from the releases page](https://github.com/philr/bzip2-windows/releases).

The binary releases depend on the Visual Studio C Runtime Library (please refer to the release notes for details).