[PATCH v4] Improve Windows build documentation

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 7/27/22 17:07, Martin Bonner wrote:
>
> Martin
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 14:29, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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.

Then you will have to send the patches from home.

> In addition, I don't think gmail likes SMTP either.

See
Check Gmail through other email platforms
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en

Best regards

Heinrich

>
> 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
>     <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
>     <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
>