On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 03:56:07PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
On 7/27/22 15:51, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
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 martingreybeard@gmail.com
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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
This should not be pre-formatted text but simply a list.
+You probably want ``git`` as well. You can install all these with::
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+ $ pacman -S gcc make bison diffutils openssl-devel flex libgnutls-devel libuuid-devel git
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Best regards
Heinrich
+The MSYS2 installer tested is http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20190524.exe.
Do you really suggest to download a 3 year old version?
It should be kept in-sync with what .azure-pipeline.yml does which is a newer version than that, yes.