[RELEASE] LHA (LZH) for Windows – New Standalone 32/64-bit Static Build with Native CMD Wildcard Support!

Hi everyone!

If you are into retrocomputing (Amiga, MS-DOS, PC-98) or digital preservation, you probably still deal with LHA / LZH archives. However, running traditional Unix ports on modern 64-bit Windows environments often causes issues—either triggering missing DLL errors or crashing due to hardcoded Unix path restrictions.

To solve this, I have just built and released a 100% standalone, static custom version of LHA for Windows (both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms), tailored to fix all these classic bugs.

🛠️ What makes this release special:

• 100% Statically Linked: All essential runtime libraries (including libiconv) are compiled right inside the executable. It is completely portable and requires zero external .dll files to run.

• Native Windows Wildcard Expansion: I patched the source code (_dowildcard) to enable native CMD asterisk handling. You can finally use standard commands like lha a archive.lha . directly in the Windows Command Prompt without warnings!

• No /tmp/ Directory Glitch: Reconfigured to drop the rigid Unix /tmp/ requirement. The tool now handles temporary files dynamically inside your current working directory, preventing crashes.

• Clean CLI Interface: Suppressed redundant Autoconf compiler options from the help screen for a clean, distraction-free text output.

Feel free to grab the free binaries, which include the updated English user manual and MIT license notes, from my portal.

📥 Download Area: https://thedubber.altervista.org/other/lha3264/