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authorChun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org>2022-08-11 17:44:41 +0800
committerChun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org>2022-08-11 17:44:41 +0800
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README.MSVC.md: Mention about introspection workarounds
The distutils that is provided with setuptools can have problems coping with running the introspection builds for GJS, so mention a workaround while a fix is being investigated.
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diff --git a/README.MSVC.md b/README.MSVC.md
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@@ -170,7 +170,9 @@ meson <path_to_gjs_sources> --buildtype=... --prefix=<some_prefix> -Dskip_dbus_t
see the Meson documentation for the values accepted by buildtype)
You may want to view the build options after the configuration succeeds
-by using 'meson configure'
+by using 'meson configure'. You may need to set the envvar:
+`SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib` for the introspection step to proceed
+successfully. A fix for this is being investigated.
When the configuration succeeds, run:
ninja