* 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@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