[PATCH v4] Improve Windows build documentation
Martin Bonner
martingreybeard at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 09:42:02 CEST 2022
* 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>
---
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
--
Martin Bonner
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