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| author | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff.email> | 2024-03-03 19:11:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff.email> | 2024-03-03 19:11:32 +0100 |
| commit | 00893e79fc62966067af1a106567db96bd170338 (patch) | |
| tree | 52b35cd0b42ca28e62a2ffbecade2e13dd8332cf /INSTALL.windows | |
| parent | 26112352a774737e1ce5580c93654a26c1e82b39 (diff) | |
New upstream version 1.2upstream/1.2upstream
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.windows')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.windows | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.windows b/INSTALL.windows index 2d2e1443..2edfb0a4 100644 --- a/INSTALL.windows +++ b/INSTALL.windows @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows: =============================================================================== 1) Native binaries, built using the mingw tool chain. - I recommend to use the Cygwin environment as the development environment + I recommend to use the Cygwin environment as the development environment (*) and mingw only as the target (runtime, deployment) environment. For this, you need to install * Cygwin (from https://cygwin.com/), @@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows: make install + (*) Note: The MSYS2 environment as a development environment is *not* + supported. This environment contains an ignoble and ignominious hack: + In a program invocation, the program *by default* receives different + arguments than the ones that the caller has passed. See + <https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Porting/#filesystem-namespaces>. + All program invocations in this environment are therefore unreliable. + =============================================================================== 2) Native binaries, built using the MS Visual C/C++ tool chain. |