From b7c790f8cf9ee1aacfcface9eca64db3184e48c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:33:13 -0400 Subject: avoid needing mingw to build on windows It was only used for its shell; cygwin has a shell. --- doc/install/Windows.mdwn | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/install/Windows.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/install/Windows.mdwn b/doc/install/Windows.mdwn index 5080fc9cb..3d4b7a073 100644 --- a/doc/install/Windows.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/Windows.mdwn @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ 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, Mingw, and Cygwin. Use Cygwin to install: +the Haskell Platform and Cygwin. Use Cygwin to install these packages: gcc rsync git wget ssh gnupg Once the prerequisites are installed, run: @@ -35,5 +35,8 @@ Once the prerequisites are installed, run: cd gitannex build +Note that git from Cygwin is able to clone git-annex's git repository; +Msysgit cannot due to some characters in filenames. + (To build the git-annex installer, you also need to install the NullSoft installer system.) -- cgit v1.2.3