From a61af72ca978baf4f32eeec42fc9e9d538a7c56d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20Storsj=C3=B6?= Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:30:13 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Write some sort of msys2 build instructions --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4649fdb..44ed3c8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -51,6 +51,18 @@ scripts have changed, you might need to wipe the build directory under each project for the new configure options to be taken into use. +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). + Status ------