[PATCH v3] Improve Windows build documentation

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 09:27:48 CEST 2022


On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 3:21 PM Martin Bonner <martingreybeard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> * Add three more modules that are required.
> * Remove the version numbers (because they are hard to keep in sync
>   with the latest MSYS2 versions)
> * Add a pacman command line to install everything.
>
> Signed off by: Martin Bonner <martingreybeard at gmail.com>

This should be "Signed-off-by". You can also use "git commit -s" to do
this automatically for you.

> ---
>  doc/build/tools.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/build/tools.rst b/doc/build/tools.rst
> index c06f915274..5f8a04a31b 100644
> --- a/doc/build/tools.rst
> +++ b/doc/build/tools.rst
> @@ -24,14 +24,20 @@ you can use MSYS2, a software distro and building platform for Windows.
>  Download the MSYS2 installer from https://www.msys2.org. Make sure you have
>  installed all required packages below in order to build these host tools::
>
> -   * gcc (9.1.0)
> -   * make (4.2.1)
> -   * bison (3.4.2)
> -   * diffutils (3.7)
> -   * openssl-devel (1.1.1.d)
> -
> -Note the version numbers in these parentheses above are the package versions
> -at the time being when writing this document. The MSYS2 installer tested is
> +   * gcc
> +   * make
> +   * bison
> +   * diffutils
> +   * openssl-devel
> +   * flex
> +   * libgnutls-devel
> +   * libuuid-devel
> +
> +You probably want ``git`` as well.  You can install all these with::
> +
> +    $ pacman -S gcc make bison diffutils openssl-devel flex libgnutls-devel libuuid-devel git
> +
> +The MSYS2 installer tested is
>  http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20190524.exe.
>
>  There are 3 MSYS subsystems installed: MSYS2, MinGW32 and MinGW64. Each
> --

Regards,
Bin


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