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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2014-05-05 13:06:04 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2014-05-05 13:06:04 +0300
commit9db5046c106f5bf6ceb79949b7b089809f099b42 (patch)
treeb4d21f5b201e9eb9ae87327b2d098cc289c29726 /nt/INSTALL
parent80e377c0d02bcacd636465ff1a169cf4ebafeec3 (diff)
downloademacs-9db5046c106f5bf6ceb79949b7b089809f099b42.tar.gz
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.
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diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index 1fe00a37d97..a52bdd8f086 100644
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+++ 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