On 7/27/22 15:29, Heinrich Schuchardt 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 <martingreybe...@gmail.com>
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Heinrich
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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
This should not be pre-formatted text but simply a list.
+
+You probably want ``git`` as well. You can install all these with::
Allow for syntax highlighting:
.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ pacman -S gcc make bison diffutils openssl-devel flex
libgnutls-devel libuuid-devel git
The line should be limited to 80 characters. Use \.
Please, remove the leading $.
Best regards
Heinrich
+
+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
