Compile xz for Windows using MinGW

xz is the new popular compression format. To build xz tools and libraries, I issued the following commands.

./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared --disable-nls --disable-lzma-links --disable-scripts
make
make install

I got the following files:

lzmadec.exe
lzmainfo.exe
unxz.exe
xz.exe
xzcat.exe
xzdec.exe

Note that xz can be used to create and decompress lzma files also.

MinGW: Compiling LZO Compression Library

LZO, short for Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer, is compression software that is designed for decompression speed. I compiled the LZO library like this.

tar xzvf lzo-2.03.tar.gz

cd lzo-2.03/

./configure --prefix=/mingw

make

make install

I only got a static library liblzo2.a. So I had to convert it to a DLL.

gcc -shared -o liblzo2-2.dll -Wl,--out-implib,liblzo2.dll.a -Wl,--whole-archive /mingw/lib/liblzo2.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -L/mingw/lib -lwinmm