[PATCH v4] Improve Windows build documentation

Martin Bonner martingreybeard at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 17:07:30 CEST 2022


Martin


On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 14:29, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
wrote:

> On 7/25/22 09:42, Martin Bonner 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>
>
> Your mail is not a valid patch:
>
> $ git am /tmp/0.patch
> Applying: Improve Windows build documentation
> error: corrupt patch at line 10
> Patch failed at 0001 Improve Windows build documentation
>
> Please, use 'git send-email' for sending patches.
>

I'm afraid I can't do that.  The machine that the patches are on is at
work, and behind a firewall that doesn't allow SMTP through.
In addition, I don't think gmail likes SMTP either.

Do you have any suggestions how to work round this?

>
> Best regards
>
> Heinrich
>
> > ---
> >   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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