renamed win32_help folder, which seemed a bit misleading, to win32_helper.

[feisty_meow.git] / doc / binaries_note.txt

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-There are a few pre-built binaries included with hoople.
-They originate from a few different sources.  Feel free to not trust them.
-
-These apps are external to the HOOPLE build...
-
-build/msys hierarchy:
-  This is copied directly from the msys project of MingW.
-  It has had zip.exe, unzip.exe and short_path.exe added to it.
-
-    unzip.exe & zip.exe:
-      The zip and unzip tools are from the info-zip project.  They are somewhat
-    antiquated but still work great on the various 32-bit windows platforms.
-    These utilities are self-identified as: "Zip 2.3 (November 29th 1999)"
-    To get a more recent version of the zip utilities or build them yourself,
-    they can be found at the site: http://www.info-zip.org/
-
-    short_path.exe:
-      Built by the hoople bootstrapping process, but unfortunately this tool
-    is desperately needed for windows builds to work nicely with clam and
-    bash.  It can be replaced by any newer working version from the bootstrap.
+There is one pre-built binary included with this code distribution
+in the production/win32_helper folder.  Feel free to not trust it.
+
+short_path.exe:
+  This tool is built by the feisty meow application bootstrapping process
+  (that is, by scripts/generator/bootstrap_build.sh), but unfortunately it is
+  needed *by* that process when your visual studio installation path has
+  spaces in it.  To fix this chicken & egg problem, you can manually change
+  your VC root variable (e.g. VS100COMNTOOLS) to the short path version (as
+  reported using "dir /x").