On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 3:21 PM Martin Bonner martingreybeard@gmail.com 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

This should be "Signed-off-by". You can also use "git commit -s" to do this automatically for you.

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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

+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

Regards, Bin