From 5938c122270128a8877988fc1bb84521a62849e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20Storsj=C3=B6?= Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 23:40:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] readme: Recommend installing python3 instead of python2 Nowadays msys2 provides python 3.8 in the python3 package, so the previous bug regarding running subprocesses in python3 is fixed. --- README.md | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9a6b7dd..94b8222 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -61,12 +61,7 @@ Building in MSYS2 To build in MSYS2, install the following set of packages with `pacman -S`: - git subversion mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake make mingw-w64-x86_64-python2 - -Do note that this installs python2, not python3. python3 on windows -seems to have a bug in running subprocesses the way it's done by a -script in libcxx, a bug that only seems to be -[fixed in python 3.8](https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9e3c4526394856d6376eed4968d27d53e1d69b7d). + git subversion mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake make mingw-w64-x86_64-python3 Status