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author | 2016-02-24 15:27:01 +0000 | |
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committer | 2016-02-24 18:03:32 +0000 | |
commit | 24039de8ddf8015d649b12cc42f71a97306f61fb (patch) | |
tree | f798dcffa701da68e1a052569bd54956c6f84d33 /site/docs/windows.md | |
parent | b35cd38015f3b354ef36328e58e074421b15d007 (diff) |
Add zlib-devel to the set of pacman packages we ask people to install on Windows.
Also make windows.md a bit nicer in general.
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diff --git a/site/docs/windows.md b/site/docs/windows.md index d56c794620..f12229fdf0 100644 --- a/site/docs/windows.md +++ b/site/docs/windows.md @@ -10,24 +10,27 @@ Windows support is highly experimental. Known issues are [marked with label "Windows"](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AWindows) on github issues. -We currently support only 64bit Windows 7 or higher. +We currently support only 64 bit Windows 7 or higher and we can only compile +msys2 binaries. + To bootstrap Bazel on Windows, you will need: * Java JDK 8 or later -* [msys2](https://msys2.github.io/) (need to be installed at ``C:\msys64\``). -* Several MSYS packages (gcc, git, curl, zip, unzip): use ``pacman`` command - to install those. +* [msys2](https://msys2.github.io/) (need to be installed at + ``C:\tools\msys64\``). +* Several msys2 packages. Use the ``pacman`` command to install them: + ``pacman -S gcc git curl zip unzip zlib-devel`` To build Bazel: -* Open MSYS2 shell. -* Clone bazel git repository as normal. +* Open the msys2 shell. +* Clone the Bazel git repository as normal. * Set the environment variables: ```bash export JAVA_HOME="$(ls -d C:/Program\ Files/Java/jdk* | sort | tail -n 1)" export TMPDIR=c:/temp -export BAZEL_SH=c:/msys64/usr/bin/bash.exe +export BAZEL_SH=c:/tools/msys64/usr/bin/bash.exe ``` * Run ``compile.sh`` in Bazel directory. |