From 1e125ee226ff28ab01e78bcaa5a4a8f76eb1c81b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 18:38:02 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] nt/INSTALL: More details about creating the build environment. --- nt/INSTALL | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL index a52bdd8f086..0d54f27dfff 100644 --- a/nt/INSTALL +++ b/nt/INSTALL @@ -238,6 +238,16 @@ Windows 9X as well). install the packages manually, we recommend to use the Windows port of the 'bsdtar' program, already mentioned above. + MSYS packages should be installed in a separate tree from MinGW. + For example, use D:\MSYS or D:\usr\MSYS as the top-level directory + from which you unpack all of the MSYS packages. + + After installing Automake and Autoconf, make sure any of the *.m4 + files you might have in your MinGW installation (e.g., pkg.m4 that + comes with pkg-config) also exist in the MSYS installation tree, in + the share/aclocal directory. Those *.m4 files which exist in the + MinGW tree, but not in the MSYS tree should be copied there. + If/when you are confident in your MinGW/MSYS installation, and want to speed up the builds, we recommend installing a pre-release version of Make from here: @@ -265,10 +275,6 @@ Windows 9X as well). states the missing or incompatible DLL; be sure to find and install these missing DLLs. - MSYS packages should be installed in a separate tree from MinGW. - For example, use D:\MSYS or D:\usr\MSYS as the top-level directory - from which you unpack all of the MSYS packages. - Do NOT add the MSYS bin directory to your Windows Path! Only the MinGW bin directory should be on Path. When you install MSYS, it creates a shortcut on your desktop that invokes the MSYS Bash shell @@ -305,6 +311,10 @@ Windows 9X as well). ok Checking for automake (need at least version 1.11)... ok + Checking for pkg-config (need at least version 0.9.0)... + ok + Checking for pkg.m4... + ok Your system has the required tools, running autoreconf... You can now run `./configure'. -- 2.39.5