wimlib | Library supporting the Windows Imaging Format

wimlib is a C library. wimlib has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However wimlib has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

this is wimlib version 1.13.4 (april 2021). wimlib is a c library for creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the windows imaging format (wim files). wimlib and its command-line frontend 'wimlib-imagex' provide a free and cross-platform alternative to microsoft's wimgapi, imagex, and dism. to install wimlib and wimlib-imagex on unix-like systems, you can compile from source (e.g. './configure && make && sudo make install'). alternatively, check if a package has already been prepared for your operating system. to install wimlib and wimlib-imagex on windows, just download and extract the zip file containing the latest binaries. see readme.windows for more details. all official wimlib releases are available from a windows imaging (wim) file is an archive designed primarily for archiving windows filesystems. however, it can be used on other platforms as well, with some limitations. like some other archive formats such as zip, files in wim archives may be compressed. wim archives support multiple compression formats, including lzx, xpress, and lzms. all these formats are supported by wimlib. a wim archive contains one or more "images", each of which is a logically independent directory tree. each image has a 1-based index and usually a name. wim