From 699941e25a1fcf0beec124203747c8ed20842989 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: srs5694 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:33:57 -0400 Subject: 0.7.1 release version --- README.Windows | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.Windows') diff --git a/README.Windows b/README.Windows index fa57484..3194838 100644 --- a/README.Windows +++ b/README.Windows @@ -88,10 +88,19 @@ for disks and partitions, not to the GUIDs used to identify partition type codes; those are standardized and are handled correctly by all versions of GPT fdisk. +The Windows binaries I've compiled do not support Unicode UTF-16LE GPT +partition names. This feature was added to version 0.7.1 of the software +for Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X, and with changes to some #ifndef lines in the +source files, it can be compiled for Windows; however, it seems to do +little good in Windows because of Command Prompt window and/or ICU library +limitations. Thus, I've omitted this support in the interests of +simplifying the binary distribution, since including it would mean +distributing the ICU libraries. + Source Code and Compilation Issues ---------------------------------- -I have successfully compiled GPT fdisk using two different Windows +I have successfully compiled GPT fdisk using three different Windows compilers: - MinGW (http://www.mingw.org), and in particular its Linux-hosted @@ -109,8 +118,11 @@ compilers: all the *.cc files except diskio-unix.cc, sgdisk.cc, and whichever program file you intend to NOT build (gdisk.cc or fixparts.cc). -The MinGW compiler produces much larger executables than does the MS -compiler. The resulting binaries seem to work equally well, but my testing +- Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express -- This compiler works much like the + 2008 version, although I didn't need to add a third-party stdint.h file. + +The MinGW compiler produces much larger executables than do the MS +compilers. The resulting binaries seem to work equally well, but my testing has been minimal. I've also attempted to compile the code with OpenWatcom 1.8, but this -- cgit v1.2.1