Libstrings is a free software library for reading and writing TES V: Skyrim's .STRINGS, .DLSTRINGS and .ILSTRINGS files.
Libstrings uses CMake v2.8.9 or later for cross-platform building support, though development takes place on Linux, and the instructions below reflect this. Building on Windows should be straightforward using analogous commands though.
Libstrings expects all libraries' folders to be present alongside the libstrings repository folder that contains this readme, or otherwise installed such that the compiler and linker used can find them without suppling additional paths. All paths below are relative to the folder(s) containing the libraries and libstrings.
./bootstrap.sh
echo "using gcc : 4.6.3 : i686-w64-mingw32-g++ : <rc>i686-w64-mingw32-windres <archiver>i686-w64-mingw32-ar <ranlib>i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib ;" > tools/build/v2/user-config.jam
./b2 toolset=gcc-4.6.3 target-os=windows link=static variant=release address-model=32 cxxflags=-fPIC --with-filesystem --with-locale --with-regex --with-system --stagedir=stage-mingw-32
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DPROJECT_LIBS_DIR=.. -DPROJECT_ARCH=32 -DPROJECT_LINK=STATIC -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=mingw-toolchain.cmake
make
If natively compiling, all the -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE arguments can be omitted, as can the echo line when building Boost.
To build a shared library, swap -DPROJECT_LINK=STATIC with -DPROJECT_LINK=SHARED.
To build a 64 bit library, swap all instances of i686 with x86_64 and 32 with 64.