busybox-w32/Config.in, branch long_paths

win32: add (some) long path support

2026-02-27T14:27:40+00:00

Use the longPathAware manifest entry to handle path lengths above 260. This requires the LongPathsEnabled registry key to be set at run-time. Modify (some) WIN32 API calls to use the wide-character variant. These features are controlled by the build-time configuration option FEATURE_LONG_PATHS, which is not enabled by default.

win32: add a config for 32-bit build with Unicode

2025-12-02T09:36:14+00:00

Now that a binary with a UTF-8 manifest can run on Windows XP it's possible to configure a build which supports Unicode on Windows 10+ but which still runs on legacy systems. - Add the config file mingw32w_defconfig. This is a 32-bit build with the UTF-8 manifest which also runs on legacy systems. - A new config option, FEATURE_FAIL_IF_UTF8_MANIFEST_UNSUPPORTED, allows the check for legacy systems to be skipped. - An incompatibility with Windows XP in writeCon_utf8() has been fixed. See this GitHub issue for details: https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit/issues/315

Merge branch 'busybox' into merge

2025-11-11T10:00:52+00:00

win32: allow the use of PNG format icons

2025-11-06T13:00:49+00:00

Convert the icons to PNG format (by simply exporting them from GIMP and selecting the 'Compressed (PNG)' chackbox). Allow these to be selected instead of ICO format at build time. Use the PNG icons by default in the Unicode and aarch64 builds. Saves 26KB in those cases. (GitHub PR #540)

busybox: optional --version support

2025-10-13T19:56:47+00:00

function old new delta busybox_main 695 734 +39 Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

win32: use RtlGenRandom for /dev/urandom

2025-10-09T06:49:58+00:00

Use the (somewhat ancient) Microsoft RtlGenRandom() function to provide random data for /dev/urandom. Saves 176-240 bytes. (GitHub issue #519)

build system: include stack unwind tables

2025-05-18T10:28:13+00:00

Commit 9b80b903c7 (build system: stop .eh_frame generation) added compiler flags to prevent unwind tables being included in the binary. BusyBox doesn't normally require such tables and the size of the binary was much reduced. Windows' Control Flow Guard feature needs unwind tables. Without them calls to longjmp(3), widely used in BusyBox, fail. Add a configuration option to control whether or not unwind tables are included. (GitHub issue #495)

build system: make compiler names configurable

2024-01-20T09:35:50+00:00

The top-level Makefile hardcoded the host and cross compiler name to "gcc". Make it possible to set different values either on the command line (make CROSS_COMPILER=clang) or in the configuration file.

win32: allow hardcoded list of applets to override

2023-12-09T09:43:06+00:00

The environment variable BB_OVERRIDE_APPLETS provides control over which applets are preferred in standalone shell mode. Allow a similar list to be hardcoded in the binary with the OVERRIDE_APPLETS configuration string. The environment variable is checked first. If it doesn't override the applet the hardcoded string is then checked too. The default for OVERRIDE_APPLETS is an empty string. In this case the size and behaviour of the binary is unchanged.

win32: include our manifests in default configurations

2023-09-15T08:44:12+00:00

The default configurations now include the provided standard or UTF-8 manifest. This works best if the build toolchain doesn't provide a default manifest (which Fedora and w64devkit don't, by default). If the toolchain does have a default manifest some bloat will result. (GitHub issue #366)