From 00893e79fc62966067af1a106567db96bd170338 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Frings-F=C3=BCrst?= Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2024 19:11:32 +0100 Subject: New upstream version 1.2 --- INSTALL.windows | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'INSTALL.windows') 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 + . + All program invocations in this environment are therefore unreliable. + =============================================================================== 2) Native binaries, built using the MS Visual C/C++ tool chain. -- cgit v1.2.3