I have recently build the u-boot tools on Windows and ran into difficulties. This patch to the documentation would have avoided those difficulties. Contentious points:
* While I have run the document through a rst previewer, I haven't run the full test suite. I know, I know, everyone thinks _they_ don't need to run the tests because reasons, but I think it's true this time. * I have removed the version numbers from the list of packages. I don't think they are helpful, and are just maintenance overhead. (I don't think I got those versions for example).
I'd be grateful if @Bin Meng could review this, because `git blame` says the file I am changing is all his.
No actual changes, but hopefully closer to the required formalities:
Signed-off-by: Martin Bonner martingreybeard@gmail.com
commit e3615603d919ab19fddbee4a68e8a37b91a75f3e (HEAD -> better-windows-build-doc) Author: Martin Bonner martingreybeard@gmail.com Date: Tue Jul 5 09:10:59 2022 +0100
Tweak docs for building tools on Windows
* Add three more modules that are required. * Remove the version numbers (because they are hard to keep in sync) * Add a pacman command line to install everything.
diff --git a/doc/build/tools.rst b/doc/build/tools.rst index c06f915274..95f1246617 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