X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fbinaries_note.txt;h=522af189635398abcef0a0d2bc0c07977440979d;hb=a554566fc3710cdffa9a829062f33454605a7589;hp=e4191f6541b3377d9fba6b7576c05dcbdce9e578;hpb=eb6dc8f19d6bc48bd41e85028d4d214955d07829;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/doc/binaries_note.txt b/doc/binaries_note.txt index e4191f65..522af189 100644 --- a/doc/binaries_note.txt +++ b/doc/binaries_note.txt @@ -1,22 +1,26 @@ -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: - 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 +production/win32_help hierarchy: + 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. + short_path.exe: + 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. + zap_process.exe + A win32 tool that kills any process containing the name provided.