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Following patch on mswin32.pl, I update documentation.
FranÃois.
--- README.win32.orig 2005-01-26 12:02:48.000000000 +0100
+++ README.win32 2005-03-17 18:49:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@
or
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe
-MinGW works with its GNU "make" port. It can be downloaded here:
-L<http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.exe>
+MinGW works with its GNU "make" (v 3.80) port and its name is
'mingw32-make.exe'.
=item Command Shell
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@
Though Parrot comes with ICU, the build system is rather fragile, and
will not work for most people. Currently, the best way to use ICU is
to download the binary distribution from
-L<http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.8/index.html>, unpack
+L<ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/2.8/>, unpack
it (say, into C:\usr\lib), add the bin directory to PATH, and tell
Configure.pl to use it.
@@ -80,17 +79,15 @@
=item MinGW32 with GCC
-The latest release of MSYS package at the time of writing is 1.0.10,
+The latest release of MinGW package at the time of writing is 3.1.0,
which contains gcc-3.2.3. It can be downloaded here:
-L<http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe>
+L<http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe>
The HomePage is on L<http://www.mingw.org/>.
-As Configure.pl extracts configuration from the perl program,
-first build/install perl with MinGW (no binary distribution available).
+With the ActiveState Perl distribution, tell Configure.pl to use gcc :
-See details on L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/README.win32>,
-and source on L<http://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz>.
+ perl Configure.pl --cc=gcc --icushared="C:\usr\lib\icu\lib\icudata.lib
C:\usr\lib\icu\lib\icuuc.lib" --icuheaders="C:\usr\lib\icu\include"
Nota: Use only the ICU binary distribution.
@@ -129,6 +126,8 @@
=over
+=item François Perrad E<lt>[EMAIL PROTECTED]<gt>
+
=item XXX Your Name Here XXX
=back
@@ -144,6 +143,8 @@
This document borrows heavily from perl's README.win32.
-Last updated: 23 Jan 2005
+GCC/mingw32 support was added in 0.1.2 (François Perrad).
+
+Last updated: 17 March 2005
=cut
--- PLATFORMS.orig 2005-02-04 10:24:44.000000000 +0100
+++ PLATFORMS 2005-03-17 17:26:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@
win32-bcc
win32-cygwin_1.5.11_1 Y Y - Y*5 Y Y Y 20041006
win32-icl_8.0.48 - Y - - - Y Y/2
-win32-mingw
+win32-mingw-gcc3.2.3 Y Y Y - - Y Y/7 20050307
win32-ms-cl_13.10.3077 - Y - - - Y Y/9 20041008
+win32-msys_1.0.10 Y Y Y - - Y Y/11 20050316
- ... no
Y ... yes
