-There are a few pre-built binaries included with hoople.
+There are a few pre-built binaries included with this code distribution.
They originate from a few different sources. Feel free to not trust them.
-These apps are external to the HOOPLE build...
+These apps are external to the feisty meow build...
-build/msys hierarchy:
+production/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.
+ 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/
+ 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.
+ This tool is built by the code bootstrapping process (that is, by
+ scripts/generator/bootstrap_build.sh), but unfortunately it is
+ desperately needed for windows builds to work nicely with clam and
+ bash. If you don't have it, and your visual studio installation path
+ has spaces in it, then you may have trouble bootstrapping. You can
+ manually change your VC root variable to a short path version, as
+ reported by dir /x). This tool can be replaced by any newer working
+ version created by a bootstrap build.