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authorEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2014-05-05 13:06:04 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2014-05-05 13:06:04 +0300
commit9db5046c106f5bf6ceb79949b7b089809f099b42 (patch)
treeb4d21f5b201e9eb9ae87327b2d098cc289c29726 /nt
parent80e377c0d02bcacd636465ff1a169cf4ebafeec3 (diff)
Update nt/INSTALL for the latest changes in configury.
nt/INSTALL: Update to the effect that pkg-config is now required for building from the repository.
Diffstat (limited to 'nt')
-rw-r--r--nt/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--nt/INSTALL17
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/nt/ChangeLog b/nt/ChangeLog
index f31d261931..16d3e5f397 100644
--- a/nt/ChangeLog
+++ b/nt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-05-05 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
+
+ * INSTALL: Update to the effect that pkg-config is now required
+ for building from the repository.
+
2014-04-30 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
* cmdproxy.c (make_absolute): Don't copy more characters from PATH
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index 1fe00a37d9..a52bdd8f08 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL
+++ b/nt/INSTALL
@@ -115,6 +115,11 @@ Windows 9X as well).
MSYS Texinfo, after installing it as part of msys-base, invoke the
command "mingw-get remove msys-texinfo".)
+ In addition, building Emacs from the development repository requires
+ pkg-config to be installed. As the MinGW project does not offer it,
+ you will have to install it from elsewhere; see below (search for
+ "pkg-config").
+
At this point, you should be ready to configure and build Emacs in
its basic configuration. Skip to the "Generating the configure
script" section for the build instructions. If you want to build it
@@ -173,14 +178,16 @@ Windows 9X as well).
Available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
- . gzip (needed to compress files during "make install")
+ . pkg-config (invoked by the configure script to look for optional
+ packages; _required_ for building from the development
+ repository, as some components of pkg-config are needed to run
+ the autoconf and aclocal scripts)
- Available from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm.
+ Available from http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php
- . pkg-config (needed for building with some optional libraries,
- such as GnuTLS and libxml2)
+ . gzip (needed to compress files during "make install")
- Available from http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php
+ Available from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm.
Each package might list other packages as prerequisites on its
download page (under "Runtime requirements"); download those as