X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fbinaries_note.txt;h=522af189635398abcef0a0d2bc0c07977440979d;hb=e8d9ed3714c4cef6e38553fbfc6ab85461375691;hp=a4b7849df4cf0749876c913e730078a68f8d5c07;hpb=e5f4d647d5b8d83155fc4b142626fc204cc2c15b;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/doc/binaries_note.txt b/doc/binaries_note.txt index a4b7849d..522af189 100644 --- a/doc/binaries_note.txt +++ b/doc/binaries_note.txt @@ -4,24 +4,23 @@ They originate from a few different sources. Feel free to not trust them. These apps are external to the feisty meow build... -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: +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/ - 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: - 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. + 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.