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diff --git a/doc/install/Windows.mdwn b/doc/install/Windows.mdwn index d32a790b4..7ea667a10 100644 --- a/doc/install/Windows.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/Windows.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ git-annex now does Windows! -* First, [install git for Windows](http://git-scm.com/downloads) +* First, [install Git for Windows](http://git-scm.com/downloads) Important: **Get the 32 bit version not the 64 bit version.** (Note that msysgit is no longer supported.) * Then, [install git-annex](https://downloads.kitenet.net/git-annex/windows/current/) @@ -25,15 +25,19 @@ A daily build is also available, thanks to Yury V. Zaytsev and ## building it yourself To build git-annex from source on Windows, you need to install -the Haskell Platform and Cygwin. Use Cygwin to install these packages: -gcc rsync git wget ssh gnupg +[Git for Windows](http://git-scm.com/downloads), and +[Stack](http://haskellstack.org/). -Once the prerequisites are installed, run: +You also need to install rsync and wget for windows. +They need to be linked with the same MINGW32 libraries that come with Git +for Windows. One way is to download them from +<https://downloads.kitenet.net/git-annex/windows/assets/>. +Put them somewhere in PATH. - cabal update - git clone git://git-annex.branchable.com/ gitannex - cd gitannex - build +Then open Git Bash, [[clone git-annex|download]], and in +git-annex's source tree, run "stack build" to download and build +all dependencies and git-annex. "stack install" will install git-annex. (To build the git-annex installer, you also need to install the NullSoft -installer system.) +installer system. The script `standalone/windows/build.sh` is +used to make the builds linked to above.) |