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@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ The Qt Installer Framework sources contain a redistribution of parts of the libarchive compression and archive library, which requires you to link against additional libraries; liblzma, zlib, libbzip2, and on macOS, libiconv. -The usage of libarchive is optional and can be enabled by adding the libarchive +The usage of libarchive is recommended and can be enabled by adding the libarchive configuration feature to the list of values specified by the CONFIG variable. Installers created with this configuration support the (de)compression of 7zip, zip, and tar archive files, with gzip, bzip2, and xz as available compression methods. @@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ files, with gzip, bzip2, and xz as available compression methods. The IFW_ZLIB_LIBRARY, IFW_BZIP2_LIBRARY, IFW_LZMA_LIBRARY, and IFW_ICONV_LIBRARY variables can be used to specify the exact library files if required. -If you omit the feature, the installation of the additional dependencies can be skipped, -but created installers will only support the 7zip format. +If you omit the feature, the builtin LZMA SDK library will be used as a fallback and +installation of the additional dependencies can be skipped, but created installers will +only support the 7zip format. Note that building IFW with LZMA SDK is deprecated and may not +be available in future versions. ### Windows |